| Description |
xx, 420 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Great books of the Western World ; v. 48 |
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Great books of the Western World (Chicago, Ill.) ; v. 48
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| Contents |
Loomings -- Carpet bag -- Spouter Inn -- Counterpane -- Breakfast -- Street -- Chapel -- Pulpit -- Sermon -- Bosom friend -- Nightgown -- Biographical -- Wheelbarrow -- Nantucket -- Chowder -- Ship -- Ramadan -- His mark -- Prophet -- All astir -- Going aboard -- Merry Christmas -- Lee shore -- Advocate -- Postscript -- Knights and Squires -- Knights and squires(cont.) -- Ahab -- Enter Ahab; to him, Stubb -- Pipe -- Queen Mab -- Cetology -- Specksynder -- Cabin table -- Masthead -- Quarterdeck -- Sunset -- Dusk -- First night-watch -- Midnight: Forecastle -- Moby Dick -- Whiteness of the whale -- Hark! -- Chart -- Affidavit -- Surmises -- Mat-maker -- First lowering -- Hyena -- Ahab's boat and crew; Fedallah -- Spirit-spout -- Albatross -- Gam -- Town-Ho's story -- Of the monstrous pictures of whales -- Of the less erroneous pictures of whales, and the true pictures of whaling scenes -- Of whales in paint; in teeth; in wood; in sheetiron; in stone; in mountains; in stars -- Brit -- Squid -- Line -- Stubb kills a whale -- Dart -- Crotch -- Stubb's supper -- Whale as a dish -- Shark massacre -- Cutting-in -- Blanket -- Funeral -- Sphinx -- Jeroboam's story -- Monkey-rope -- Stubb and Flask kill a right whale, and then have a talk over him -- Sperm whale's head; contrasted view -- Right whale's head; contrasted view -- Battering-ram -- Great Heidelburgh turn -- Cistern and buckets -- Prairie -- Nut -- Pequod meets the Virgin -- Honour and glory of whaling -- Jonah historically regarded -- Pitchpoling -- Fountain -- Tail -- Grand armada -- Schools and schoolmasters -- Fast-fish and loose-fish -- Heads or tails -- Pequod meets the Rosebud -- Ambergris -- Castaway -- Squeeze of the hand -- Cassock -- Try-works -- Lamp -- Stowing down and clearing up -- Doubloon -- Leg and arm; the Pequod of Nantucket meets the Samuel Enderby of London -- Decanter -- Bower in the Arsacides -- Measurement of the Whale's skeleton -- Fossil whale -- Does the whale's magnitude diminish? Will he perish? -- Ahab's leg -- Carpenter -- Ahab and the carpenter -- Ahab and Starbuck in the cabin -- Queequeg in his coffin -- Pacific -- Blacksmith -- Forge -- Gilder -- Pequod meets the Bachelor -- Dying whale -- Whale watch -- Quadrant -- Candles -- Deck towards the end of the first night watch -- Midnight: The forecastle bulwarks -- Midnight aloft; thunder and lightning -- Musket -- Needle -- Log and line -- Lifebuoy -- Deck -- Pequod meets the Rachel -- Cabin -- Hat -- Pequod meets the Delight -- Symphony -- Chase first day -- Chase second day -- Chase third day -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
A classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale who defied capture |
| Notes |
Orig. pub. 1851 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: page 514 |
| Notes |
Great books of the Western world no:48 |
| Subject |
Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
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American fiction -- 19th century.
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Mentally ill -- Fiction.
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Ship captains -- Fiction.
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Whales -- Fiction.
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Whaling ships -- Fiction.
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Whaling -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| LC no. |
55010354 |
| ISBN |
0852291639 |
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