| Edition |
Modern Library edition. |
| Description |
xxxv, 822 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
[A Modern library giant]
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[The Modern library of the world's best book]
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| Note |
Series statements from jacket. |
| Contents |
Loomings -- The carpet-bag -- The spouter-inn -- The counterpane -- Breakfast -- The street -- The chapel -- The pulpit -- The sermon -- A bosom friend -- Nightgown -- Biographical -- Wheelbarrow -- Nantucket -- Chowder -- The ship -- The Ramadan -- His mark -- The prophet -- All astir -- Going aboard -- Merry Christmas -- The Lee shore -- The advocate -- Postscript -- Knights and squires -- Knights and squires -- Ahab -- Enter Ahab; to him, Stubb -- The pipe -- Queen Mab -- Cetology -- The specksynder -- The cabin-table -- The mast-head -- The quarter-deck. Ahab and all -- Sunset -- Dusk -- First night-watch -- Forecastle--midnight -- Moby Dick -- The whiteness of the whale -- Hark! -- The chart -- The affidavit -- Surmises -- The mat-maker -- The first lowering -- The hyena -- Ahab's boat and crew. Fedallah -- The spirit-spout -- The Pequod meets the Albatross -- The gam -- The town-ho's story -- Monstrous pictures of whales -- Less erroneous pictures of whales -- Of whales in paint, in teeth, &C -- Brit -- Squid -- The line -- Stubb kills a whale -- The dart -- The crotch -- Stubb's supper -- The whale as a dish -- The shark massacre -- Cutting in -- The blanket -- The funeral -- The sphynx -- The Pequod meets the Jeroboam, her story -- The monkey-rope -- Stubb and flask kill a right whale -- The sperm whale's head -- The right whale's head -- The battering-ram -- The great Heidelburch Tun -- Cistern and buckets -- The praire -- The nut -- The Pequod meets the virgin -- The honor and glory of whaling -- Jonah historically regarded -- Pitchpoling -- The fountain -- The tail -- The grand armada -- Schools and schoolmasters -- Fast-fish and loose-fish -- Heads or tails -- The Pequod meets the rose-bud -- Ambergris -- The castaway -- A squeeze of the hand -- The cassock -- The try-works -- The lamp -- Stowing down and clearing up -- The doubloon -- The Pequod meets the Samuel Enderby of London -- The decanter -- A bower in the Arsacides -- Measurement of the whale's skeleton -- The fossil whale -- Does the whale diminish? -- Ahab's leg -- The carpenter -- The deck, Ahab and the carpenter -- The cabin, Ahab and Starbuck -- Queequeg and his coffin -- The pacific -- The blacksmith -- The forge -- The gilder -- The Pequod meets the bachelor -- The dying whale -- The whale watch -- The quadrant -- The candles -- The deck -- Midnight, on the forecastle -- Midnight, aloft -- The musket -- The needle -- The log and line -- The life-buoy -- Ahab and the carpenter -- The pequod meets the Rachel -- The cabin, Ahab and Pip -- The hat -- The Pequod meets the delight |
| Subject |
Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
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Whaling ships -- Fiction.
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Ship captains -- Fiction.
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Mentally ill -- Fiction.
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Whaling -- Fiction.
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Whales -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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Adventure fiction.
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Sea stories.
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| Added Title |
Moby Dick.
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Whale.
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| ISBN |
0679600108 (recycled, acid-free paper) : $20.00 (Canada $25.00) |
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