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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Mardi, and a Voyage Thither (Vol. 1 & 2)
Dedication
Preface
Vol. 1
Chapter I: Foot in Stirrup
Chapter II: A Calm
Chapter III: A King for a Comrade
Chapter IV: A Chat in the Clouds
Chapter V: Seats Secured and Portmanteaus Packed
Chapter VI: Eight Bells
Chapter VII: A Pause
Chapter VIII: They Push Off, Velis Et Remis
Chapter IX: The Watery World Is All Before Them
Chapter X: They Arrange Their Canopies and Lounges, and Try to Make Things Comfortable
Chapter XI: Jarl Afflicted with the Lockjaw
Chapter XII: More About Being in an Open Boat
Chapter XIII: Of the Chondropterygii, and Other Uncouth Hordes Infesting the South Seas
Chapter XIV: Jarl’s Misgivings
Chapter XV: A Stitch in Time Saves Nine
Chapter XVI: They Are Becalmed
Chapter XVII: In High Spirits, They Push on for the Terra Incognita
Chapter XVIII: My Lord Shark and His Pages
Chapter XIX: Who Goes There?
Chapter XX: Noises and Portents
Chapter XXI: Man Ho!
Chapter XXII: What Befel the Brigantine at the Pearl Shell Islands
Chapter XXIII: Sailing from the Island They Pillage the Cabin
Chapter XXIV: Dedicated to the College of Physicians and Surgeons
Chapter XXV: Peril a Peace-Maker
Chapter XXVI: Containing a Pennyweight of Philosophy
Chapter XXVII: In Which the Past History of the Parki Is Concluded
Chapter XXVIII: Suspicions Laid, and Something About the Calmuc
Chapter XXIX: What They Lighted Upon in Further Searching the Craft, and the Resolution They Came To
Chapter XXX: Hints for a Full Length of Samoa
Chapter XXXI: Rovings Alow and Aloft
Chapter XXXII: Xiphius Platypterus
Chapter XXXIII: Otard
Chapter XXXIV: How They Steered on Their Way
Chapter XXXV: Ah, Annatoo!
Chapter XXXVI: The Parki Gives Up the Ghost
Chapter XXXVII: Once More They Take to the Chamois
Chapter XXXVIII: The Sea on Fire
Chapter XXXIX: They Fall in with Strangers
Chapter XL: Sire and Sons
Chapter XLI: A Fray
Chapter XLII: Remorse
Chapter XLIII: The Tent Entered
Chapter XLIV: Away
Chapter XLV: Reminiscences
Chapter XLVI: The Chamois with a Roving Commission
Chapter XLVII: Yillah, Jarl, and Samoa
Chapter XLVIII: Something Under the Surface
Chapter XLIX: Yillah
Chapter L: Yillah in Ardair
Chapter LI: The Dream Begins to Fade
Chapter LII: World Ho!
Chapter LIII: The Chamois Ashore
Chapter LIV: A Gentleman from the Sun
Chapter LV: Tiffin in a Temple
Chapter LVI: King Media a Host
Chapter LVII: Taji Takes Counsel with Himself
Chapter LVIII: Mardi by Night and Yillah by Day
Chapter LIX: Their Morning Meal
Chapter LX: Belshazzar on the Bench
Chapter LXI: An Incognito
Chapter LXII: Taji Retires from the World
Chapter LXIII: Odo and Its Lord
Chapter LXIV: Yillah a Phantom
Chapter LXV: Taji Makes Three Acquaintances
Chapter LXVI: With a Fair Wind, at Sunrise They Sail
Chapter LXVII: Little King Peepi
Chapter LXVIII: How Teeth Were Regarded in Valapee
Chapter LXIX: The Company Discourse, and Braid-Beard Rehearses a Legend
Chapter LXX: The Minstrel Leads Off with a Paddle-Song; and a Message Is Received from Abroad
Chapter LXXI: They Land Upon the Island of Juam
Chapter LXXII: A Book from the Chronicles of Mohi
Chapter LXXIII: Something More of the Prince
Chapter LXXIV: Advancing Deeper Into the Vale, They Encounter Donjalolo
Chapter LXXV: Time and Temples
Chapter LXXVI: A Pleasant Place for a Lounge
Chapter LXXVII: The House of the Afternoon
Chapter LXXVIII: Babbalanja Solus
Chapter LXXIX: The Center of Many Circumferences
Chapter LXXX: Donjalolo in the Bosom of His Family
Chapter LXXXI: Wherein Babbalanja Relates the Adventure of One Karkeke in the Land of Shades
Chapter LXXXII: How Donjalolo, Sent Agents to the Surrounding Isles; with the Result
Chapter LXXXIII: They Visit the Tributary Islets
Chapter LXXXIV: Taji Sits Down to Dinner with Five-and-Twenty Kings, and a Royal Time They Have
Chapter LXXXV: After Dinner
Chapter LXXXVI: Of Those Scamps the Plujii
Chapter LXXXVII: Nora-Bamma
Chapter LXXXVIII: In a Calm, Hautia’s Heralds Approach
Chapter LXXXIX: Braid-Beard Rehearses the Origin of the Isle of Rogues
Chapter XC: Rare Sport at Ohonoo
Chapter XCI: Of King Uhia and His Subjects
Chapter XCII: The God Keevi and the Precipice of Mondo
Chapter XCIII: Babbalanja Steps in Between Mohi and Yoomy; and Yoomy Relates a Legend
Chapter XCIV: Of That Jolly Old Lord, Borabolla; and That Jolly Island of His, Mondoldo; and of the Fish-Ponds, and the Hereafters of Fish
Chapter XCV: That Jolly Old Lord Borabolla Laughs on Both Sides of His Face
Chapter XCVI: Samoa a Surgeon
Chapter XCVII: Faith and Knowledge
Chapter XCVIII: The Tale of a Traveler
Chapter XCIX: “Marnee Ora, Ora Marnee”
Chapter C: The Pursuer Himself Is Pursued
Chapter CI: The Iris
Chapter CII: They Depart from Mondoldo
Chapter CIII: As They Sail
Chapter CIV: Wherein Babbalanja Broaches a Diabolical Theory, and, in His Own Person, Proves It
Vol. II
Chapter I: Maramma
Chapter II: They Land
Chapter III: They Pass Through the Woods
Chapter IV: Hivohitee MDCCCXLVIII
Chapter V: They Visit the Great Morai
Chapter VI: They Discourse of the Gods of Mardi, and Braid-Beard Tells of One Foni
Chapter VII: They Visit the Lake of Yammo
Chapter VIII: They Meet the Pilgrims at the Temple of Oro
Chapter IX: They Discourse of Alma
Chapter X: Mohi Tells of One Ravoo, and They Land to Visit Revaneva, a Flourishing Artisan
Chapter XI: A Nursery-Tale of Babbalanja’s
Chapter XII: Landing to Visit Hivohitee the Pontiff, They Encounter an Extraordinary Old Hermit; with Whom Yoomy Has a Confidential Interview, but Learns Little
Chapter XIII: Babbalanja Endeavors to Explain the Mystery
Chapter XIV: Taji Receives Tidings and Omens
Chapter XV: Dreams
Chapter XVI: Media and Babbalanja Discourse
Chapter XVII: They Regale Themselves with Their Pipes
Chapter XVIII: They Visit an Extraordinary Old Antiquary
Chapter XIX: They Go Down into the Catacombs
Chapter XX: Babbalanja Quotes from an Antique Pagan; and Earnestly Presses It Upon the Company, That What He Recites Is Not His, but Another’s
Chapter XXI: They Visit a Wealthy Old Pauper
Chapter XXII: Yoomy Sings Some Odd Verses, and Babbalanja Quotes from the Old Authors Right and Left
Chapter XXIII: What Manner of Men the Tapparians Were
Chapter XXIV: Their Adventures Upon Landing at Pimminee
Chapter XXV: A, I, and O
Chapter XXVI: A Reception Day at Pimminee
Chapter XXVII: Babbalanja Falleth Upon Pimminee Tooth and Nail
Chapter XXVIII: Babbalanja Regales the Company with Some Sandwiches
Chapter XXIX: They Still Remain Upon the Rock
Chapter XXX: Behind and Before
Chapter XXXI: Babbalanja Discourses in the Dark
Chapter XXXII: My Lord Media Summons Mohi to the Stand
Chapter XXXIII: Wherein Babbalanja and Yoomy Embrace
Chapter XXXIV: Of the Isle of Diranda
Chapter XXXV: They Visit the Lords Piko and Hello
Chapter XXXVI: They Attend the Games
Chapter XXXVII: Taji Still Hunted, and Beckoned
Chapter XXXVIII: They Embark from Diranda
Chapter XXXIX: Wherein Babbalanja Discourses of Himself
Chapter XL: Of the Sorcerers in the Isle of Minda
Chapter XLI: Chiefly of Sing Bello
Chapter XLII: Dominora and Vivenza
Chapter XLIII: They Land at Dominora
Chapter XLIV: Through Dominora, They Wander After Yillah
Chapter XLV: They Behold King Bello’s State Canoe
Chapter XLVI: Wherein Babbalanja Bows Thrice
Chapter XLVII: Babbalanja Philosophizes, and My Lord Media Passes Round the Calabashes
Chapter XLVIII: They Sail Round an Island Without Landing; and Talk Round a Subject Without Getting at It
Chapter XLIX: They Draw Nigh to Porpheero; Where They Behold a Terrific Eruption
Chapter L: Wherein King Media Celebrates the Glories of Autumn, the Minstrel, the Promise of Spring
Chapter LI: In Which Azzageddi Seems to Use Babbalanja for a Mouth-Piece
Chapter LII: The Charming Yoomy Sings
Chapter LIII: They Draw Nigh Unto Land
Chapter LIV: They Visit the Great Central Temple of Vivenza
Chapter LV: Wherein Babbalanja Comments Upon the Speech of Alanno
Chapter LVI: A Scene in Tee Land of Warwicks, or King-Makers
Chapter LVII: They Hearken Unto a Voice from the Gods
Chapter LVIII: They Visit the Extreme South of Vivenza
Chapter LIX: They Converse of the Mollusca, Kings, Toad-Stools and Other Matters
Chapter LX: Wherein, That Gallant Gentleman and Demi-God, King Media, Scepter in Hand, Throws Himself into the Breach
Chapter LXI: They Round the Stormy Cape of Capes
Chapter LXII: They Encounter Gold-Hunters
Chapter LXIII: They Seek Through the Isles of Palms; and Pass the Isles of Myrrh
Chapter LXIV: Concentric, Inward, with Mardi’s Reef, They Leave Their Wake Around the World
Chapter LXV: Sailing On
Chapter LXVI: A Flight of Nightingales from Yoomy’s Mouth
Chapter LXVII: They Visit One Doxodox
Chapter LXVIII: King Media Dreams
Chapter LXIX: After a Long Interval, by Night They Are Becalmed
Chapter LXX: They Land at Hooloomooloo
Chapter LXXI: A Book from the “Ponderings of Old Bardianna”
Chapter LXXII: Babbalanja Starts to His Feet
Chapter LXXIII: At Last, the Last Mention Is Made of Old Bardianna; and His Last Will and Testament Is Recited at Length
Chapter LXXIV: A Death-Cloud Sweeps by Them, as They Sail
Chapter LXXV: They Visit the Palmy King Abrazza
Chapter LXXVI: Some Pleasant, Shady Talk in the Groves, Between My Lords Abrazza and Media, Babbalanja, Mohi, and Yoomy
Chapter LXXVII: They Sup
Chapter LXXVIII: They Embark
Chapter LXXIX: Babbalanja at the Full of the Moon
Chapter LXXX: Morning
Chapter LXXXI: L’ultima Sera
Chapter LXXXII: They Sail from Night to Day
Chapter LXXXIII: They Land
Chapter LXXXIV: Babbalanja Relates to Them a Vision
Chapter LXXXV: They Depart from Serenia
Chapter LXXXVI: They Meet the Phantoms
Chapter LXXXVII: They Draw Nigh to Flozella
Chapter LXXXVIII: They Land
Chapter LXXXIX: They Enter the Bower of Hautia
Chapter XC: Taji with Hautia
Chapter XCI: Mardi Behind: An Ocean Before
Redburn: His First Voyage
Epigraph
Chapter I: How Wellingborough Redburn’s Taste for the Sea Was Born and Bred in Him
Chapter II: Redburn’s Departure from Home
Chapter III: He Arrives in Town
Chapter IV: How He Disposed of His Fowling-Piece
Chapter V: He Purchases His Sea-Wardrobe, and on a Dismal Rainy Day Picks Up His Board and Lodging Along the Wharves
Chapter VI: He Is Initiated in the Business of Cleaning Out the Pig-Pen, and Slushing Down the Top-Mast
Chapter VII: He Gets to Sea and Feels Very Bad
Chapter VIII: He Is Put into the Larboard Watch; Gets Sea-Sick; and Relates Some Other of His Experiences
Chapter IX: The Sailors Becoming a Little Social, Redburn Converses with Them
Chapter X: He Is Very Much Frightened; the Sailors Abuse Him; and He Becomes Miserable and Forlorn
Chapter XI: He Helps Wash the Decks, and Then Goes to Breakfast
Chapter XII: He Gives Some Account of One of His Shipmates Called Jackson
Chapter XIII: He Has a Fine Day at Sea, Begins to Like It; but Changes His Mind
Chapter XIV: He Contemplates Making a Social Call on the Captain in His Cabin
Chapter XV: The Melancholy State of His Wardrobe
Chapter XVI: At Dead of Night He Is Sent Up to Loose the Main-Skysail
Chapter XVII: The Cook and Steward
Chapter XVIII: He Endeavors to Improve His Mind; and Tells of One Blunt and His Dream Book
Chapter XIX: A Narrow Escape
Chapter XX: In a Fog He Is Set to Work as a Bell-Toller, and Beholds a Herd of Ocean-Elephants
Chapter XXI: A Whaleman and a Man-of-War’s-Man
Chapter XXII: The Highlander Passes a Wreck
Chapter XXIII: An Unaccountable Cabin-Passenger, and a Mysterious Young Lady
Chapter XXIV: He Begins to Hop About in the Rigging Like a Saint Jago’s Monkey
Chapter XXV: Quarter-Deck Furniture
Chapter XXVI: A Sailor a Jack of All Trades
Chapter XXVII: He Gets a Peep at Ireland, and at Last Arrives at Liverpool
Chapter XXVIII: He Goes to Supper at the Sign of the Baltimore Clipper
Chapter XXIX: Redburn Deferentially Discourses Concerning the Prospects of Sailors
Chapter XXX: Redburn Grows Intolerably Flat and Stupid Over Some Outlandish Old Guide-Books
Chapter XXXI: With His Prosy Old Guide-Book, He Takes a Prosy Stroll Through the Town
Chapter XXXII: The Docks
Chapter XXXIII: The Salt-Droghers, and German Emigrant Ships
Chapter XXXIV: The Irrawaddy
Chapter XXXV: Galliots, Coast-of-Guinea-Man, and Floating Chapel
Chapter XXXVI: The Old Church of St. Nicholas, and the Dead-House
Chapter XXXVII: What Redburn Saw in Launcelott’s-Hey
Chapter XXXVIII: The Dock-Wall Beggars
Chapter XXXIX: The Booble-Alleys of the Town
Chapter XL: Placards, Brass-Jewelers, Truck-Horses, and Steamers
Chapter XLI: Redburn Roves About Hither and Thither
Chapter XLII: His Adventure with the Cross Old Gentleman
Chapter XLIII: He Takes a Delightful Ramble into the Country; and Makes the Acquaintance of Three Adorable Charmers
Chapter XLIV: Redburn Introduces Master Harry Bolton to the Favorable Consideration of the Reader
Chapter XLV: Harry Bolton Kidnaps Redburn, and Carries Him Off to London
Chapter XLVI: A Mysterious Night in London
Chapter XLVII: Homeward Bound
Chapter XLVIII: A Living Corpse
Chapter XLIX: Carlo
Chapter L: Harry Bolton at Sea
Chapter LI: The Emigrants
Chapter LII: The Emigrants’ Kitchen
Chapter LIII: The Horatii and Curiatii
Chapter LIV: Some Superior Old Nail-Rod and Pig-Tail
Chapter LV: Drawing Nigh to the Last Scene in Jackson’s Career
Chapter LVI: Under the Lee of the Long-Boat, Redburn and Harry Hold Confidential Communion
Chapter LVII: Almost a Famine
Chapter LVIII: Though the Highlander Puts into No Harbor as Yet; She Here and There Leaves Many of Her Passengers Behind
Chapter LIX: The Last End of Jackson
Chapter LX: Home at Last
Chapter LXI: Redburn and Harry, Arm in Arm, in Harbor
Chapter LXII: The Last That Was Ever Heard of Harry Bolton
White-Jacket, or, The World in a Man-of-War
Epigraph
Chapter I: The Jacket
Chapter II: Homeward Bound
Chapter III: A Glance at the Principal Divisions, into Which a Man-of-War’s Crew Is Divided
Chapter IV: Jack Chase
Chapter V: Jack Chase on a Spanish Quarter-Deck
Chapter VI: The Quarter-Deck Officers, Warrant Officers, and Berth-Deck Underlings of a Man-of-War • Where They Live in the Ship • How They Live • Their Social Standing on Ship-Board • and What Sort of Gentlemen They Are
Chapter VII: Breakfast, Dinner, and Supper
Chapter VIII: Selvagee Contrasted with Mad-Jack
Chapter IX: Of the Pockets That Were in the Jacket
Chapter X: From Pockets to Pickpockets
Chapter XI: The Pursuit of Poetry Under Difficulties
Chapter XII: The Good or Bad Temper of Men-of-War’s Men, in a Great Degree, Attributable to Their Particular Stations and Duties Aboard Ship
Chapter XIII: A Man-of-War Hermit in a Mob
Chapter XIV: A Draught in a Man-of-War
Chapter XV: A Salt-Junk Club in a Man-of-War, with a Notice to Quit
Chapter XVI: General Training in a Man-of-War
Chapter XVII: Away! Second, Third, and Fourth Cutters, Away!
Chapter XVIII: A Man-of-War Full as a Nut
Chapter XIX: The Jacket Aloft
Chapter XX: How They Sleep in a Man-of-War
Chapter XXI: One Reason Why Men-of-War’s Men Are, Generally, Short-Lived
Chapter XXII: Wash-Day and House-Cleaning in a Man-of-War
Chapter XXIII: Theatricals in a Man-of-War
Chapter XXIV: Introductory to Cape Horn
Chapter XXV: The Dog-Days Off Cape Horn
Chapter XXVI: The Pitch of the Cape
Chapter XXVII: Some Thoughts Growing Out of Mad Jack’s Countermanding His Superior’s Order
Chapter XXVIII: Edging Away
Chapter XXIX: The Night-Watches
Chapter XXX: A Peep Through a Port-Hole at the Subterranean Parts of a Man-of-War
Chapter XXXI: The Gunner Under Hatches
Chapter XXXII: A Dish of Dunderfunk
Chapter XXXIII: A Flogging
Chapter XXXIV: Some of the Evil Effects of Flogging
Chapter XXXV: Flogging Not Lawful
Chapter XXXVI: Flogging Not Necessary
Chapter XXXVII: Some Superior Old “London Dock” from the Wine-Coolers of Neptune
Chapter XXXVIII: The Chaplain and Chapel in a Man-of-War
Chapter XXXIX: The Frigate in Harbour • the Boats • Grand State Reception of the Commodore
Chapter XL: Some of the Ceremonies in a Man-of-War Unnecessary and Injurious
Chapter XLI: A Man-of-War Library
Chapter XLII: Killing Time in a Man-of-War in Harbour
Chapter XLIII: Smuggling in a Man-of-War
Chapter XLIV: A Knave in Office in a Man-of-War
Chapter XLV: Publishing Poetry in a Man-of-War
Chapter XLVI: The Commodore on the Poop, and One of “the People” Under the Hands of the Surgeon
Chapter XLVII: An Auction in a Man-of-War
Chapter XLVIII: Purser, Purser’s Steward, and Postmaster in a Man-of-War
Chapter XLIX: Rumours of a War, and How They Were Received by the Population of the Neversink
Chapter L: The Bay of All Beauties
Chapter LI: One of “the People” Has an Audience with the Commodore and the Captain on the Quarter-Deck
Chapter LII: Something Concerning Midshipmen
Chapter LIII: Seafaring Persons Peculiarly Subject to Being Under the Weather • the Effects of This Upon a Man-of-War Captain
Chapter LIV: “The People” Are Given “Liberty”
Chapter LV: Midshipmen Entering the Navy Early
Chapter LVI: A Shore Emperor on Board a Man-of-War
Chapter LVII: The Emperor Reviews the People at Quarters
Chapter LVIII: A Quarter-Deck Officer Before the Mast
Chapter LIX: A Man-of-War Button Divides Two Brothers
Chapter LX: A Man-of-War’s-Man Shot At
Chapter LXI: The Surgeon of the Fleet
Chapter LXII: A Consultation of Man-of-War Surgeons
Chapter LXIII: The Operation
Chapter LXIV: Man-of-War Trophies
Chapter LXV: A Man-of-War Race
Chapter LXVI: Fun in a Man-of-War
Chapter LXVII: White-Jacket Arraigned at the Mast
Chapter LXVIII: A Man-of-War Fountain, and Other Things
Chapter LXIX: Prayers at the Guns
Chapter LXX: Monthly Muster Round the Capstan
Chapter LXXI: The Genealogy of the Articles of War
Chapter LXXII: “Herein Are the Good Ordinances of the Sea, Which Wise Men, Who Voyaged Round the World, Gave to Our Ancestors, and Which Constitute the Books of the Science of Good Customs.”—the Consulate of the Sea
Chapter LXXIII: Night and Day Gambling in a Man-of-War
Chapter LXXIV: The Main-Top at Night
Chapter LXXV: “Sink, Burn, and Destroy.”—Printed Admiralty Orders in Time of War
Chapter LXXVI: The Chains
Chapter LXXVII: The Hospital in a Man-of-War
Chapter LXXVIII: Dismal Times in the Mess
Chapter LXXIX: How Man-of-War’s-Men Die at Sea
Chapter LXXX: The Last Stitch
Chapter LXXXI: How They Bury a Man-of-War’s-Man at Sea
Chapter LXXXII: What Remains of a Man-of-War’s-Man After His Burial at Sea
Chapter LXXXIII: A Man-of-War College
Chapter LXXXIV: Man-of-War Barbers
Chapter LXXXV: The Great Massacre of the Beards
Chapter LXXXVI: The Rebels Brought to the Mast
Chapter LXXXVII: Old Ushant at the Gangway
Chapter LXXXVIII: Flogging Through the Fleet
Chapter LXXXIX: The Social State in a Man-of-War
Chapter XC: The Manning of Navies
Chapter XCI: Smoking-Club in a Man-of-War, with Scenes on the Gun-Deck Drawing Near Home
Chapter XCII: The Last of the Jacket
Chapter XCIII: Cable and Anchor All Clear
Moby Dick
Etymology
Extracts
Chapter 1: Loomings
Chapter 2: The Carpet-Bag
Chapter 3: The Spouter-Inn
Chapter 4: The Counterpane
Chapter 5: Breakfast
Chapter 6: The Street
Chapter 7: The Chapel
Chapter 8: The Pulpit
Chapter 9: The Sermon
Chapter 10: A Bosom Friend
Chapter 11: Nightgown
Chapter 12: Biographical
Chapter 13: Wheelbarrow
Chapter 14: Nantucket
Chapter 15: Chowder
Chapter 16: The Ship
Chapter 17: The Ramadan
Chapter 18: His Mark
Chapter 19: The Prophet
Chapter 20: All Astir
Chapter 21: Going Aboard
Chapter 22: Merry Christmas
Chapter 23: The Lee Shore
Chapter 24: The Advocate
Chapter 25: Postscript
Chapter 26: Knights and Squires
Chapter 27: Knights and Squires
Chapter 28: Ahab
Chapter 29: Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb
Chapter 30: The Pipe
Chapter 31: Queen Mab
Chapter 32: Cetology
Chapter 33: The Specksnyder
Chapter 34: The Cabin-Table
Chapter 35: The Mast-Head
Chapter 36: The Quarter-Deck
Chapter 37: Sunset
Chapter 38: Dusk
Chapter 39: First Night Watch
Chapter 40: Midnight, Forecastle
Chapter 41: Moby Dick
Chapter 42: The Whiteness of the Whale
Chapter 43: Hark!
Chapter 44: The Chart
Chapter 45: The Affidavit
Chapter 46: Surmises
Chapter 47: The Mat-Maker
Chapter 48: The First Lowering
Chapter 49: The Hyena
Chapter 50: Ahab’s Boat and Crew • Fedallah
Chapter 51: The Spirit-Spout
Chapter 52: The Albatross
Chapter 53: The Gam
Chapter 54: The Town-Ho’s Story
Chapter 55: Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales
Chapter 56: Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True Pictures of Whaling Scenes
Chapter 57: Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Stars
Chapter 58: Brit
Chapter 59: Squid
Chapter 60: The Line
Chapter 61: Stubb Kills a Whale
Chapter 62: The Dart
Chapter 63: The Crotch
Chapter 64: Stubb’s Supper
Chapter 65: The Whale as a Dish
Chapter 66: The Shark Massacre
Chapter 67: Cutting In
Chapter 68: The Blanket
Chapter 69: The Funeral
Chapter 70: The Sphynx
Chapter 71: The Jeroboam’s Story
Chapter 72: The Monkey-Rope
Chapter 73: Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk
Chapter 74: The Sperm Whale’s Head—Contrasted View
Chapter 75: The Right Whale’s Head—Contrasted View
Chapter 76: The Battering-Ram
Chapter 77: The Great Heidelburgh Tun
Chapter 78: Cistern and Buckets
Chapter 79: The Prairie
Chapter 80: The Nut
Chapter 81: The Pequod Meets the Virgin
Chapter 82: The Honour and Glory of Whaling
Chapter 83: Jonah Historically Regarded
Chapter 84: Pitchpoling
Chapter 85: The Fountain
Chapter 86: The Tail
Chapter 87: The Grand Armada
Chapter 88: Schools and Schoolmasters
Chapter 89: Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish
Chapter 90: Heads or Tails
Chapter 91: The Pequod Meets the Rose-Bud
Chapter 92: Ambergris
Chapter 93: The Castaway
Chapter 94: A Squeeze of the Hand
Chapter 95: The Cassock
Chapter 96: The Try-Works
Chapter 97: The Lamp
Chapter 98: Stowing Down and Clearing Up
Chapter 99: The Doubloon
Chapter 100: Leg and Arm
Chapter 101: The Decanter
Chapter 102: A Bower in the Arsacides
Chapter 103: Measurement of the Whale’s Skeleton
Chapter 104: The Fossil Whale
Chapter 105: Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish?—Will He Perish?
Chapter 106: Ahab’s Leg
Chapter 107: The Carpenter
Chapter 108: Ahab and the Carpenter
Chapter 109: Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin
Chapter 110: Queequeg in His Coffin
Chapter 111: The Pacific
Chapter 112: The Blacksmith
Chapter 113: The Forge
Chapter 114: The Gilder
Chapter 115: The Pequod Meets the Bachelor
Chapter 116: The Dying Whale
Chapter 117: The Whale Watch
Chapter 118: The Quadrant
Chapter 119: The Candles
Chapter 120: The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch
Chapter 121: Midnight—the Forecastle Bulwarks
Chapter 122: Midnight Aloft—Thunder and Lightning
Chapter 123: The Musket
Chapter 124: The Needle
Chapter 125: The Log and Line
Chapter 126: The Life-Buoy
Chapter 127: The Deck
Chapter 128: The Pequod Meets the Rachel
Chapter 129: The Cabin
Chapter 130: The Hat
Chapter 131: The Pequod Meets the Delight
Chapter 132: The Symphony
Chapter 133: The Chase—First Day
Chapter 134: The Chase—Second Day
Chapter 135: The Chase—Third Day
Epilogue
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
To Greylock’s Most Excellent Majesty
Book I: Pierre Just Emerging from His Teens
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Book II: Love, Delight, and Alarm
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Book III: The Presentiment and the Verification
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Book IV: Retrospective
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Book V: Misgivings and Preparations
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Book VI: Isabel, and the First Part of the Story of Isabel
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Book VII: Intermediate Between Pierre’s Two Interviews with Isabel at the Farm-House
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Book VIII: The Second Interview at the Farm-House, and the Second Part of the Story of Isabel • Their Immediate Impulsive Effect Upon Pierre
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Book IX: More Light, and the Gloom of That Light • More Gloom, and the Light of That Gloom
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Book X: The Unprecedented Final Resolution of Pierre
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Book XI: He Crosses the Rubicon
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Book XII: Isabel • Mrs. Glendinning • The Portrait • And Lucy
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Book XIII: They Depart the Meadows
Chapter I
Chapter II
Book XIV: The Journey and the Pamphlet
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Book XV: The Cousins
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Book XVI: First Night of Their Arrival in the City
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Book XVII: Young America in Literature
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Book XVIII: Pierre, as a Juvenile Author, Reconsidered
Chapter I
Chapter II
Book XIX: The Church of the Apostles
Chapter I
Chapter II
Book XX: Charlie Millthorpe
Chapter I
Chapter II
Book XXI: Pierre Immaturely Attempts a Mature Work • Tidings from the Meadows • Plinlimmon
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Book XXII: The Flower-Curtain Lifted from Before a Tropical Author, with Some Remarks on the Transcendental Flesh-Brush Philosophy
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Book XXIII: A Letter for Pierre • Isabel • Arrival of Lucy’s Easel and Trunks at the Apostles’
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Book XXIV: Lucy at the Apostles
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Book XXV: Lucy, Isabel, and Pierre • Pierre at His Book • Enceladus
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Book XXVI: A Walk • A Foreign Portrait • A Sail • And the End
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
First Page
Israel Potter
Dedication
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XVI
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
Chapter XXII
Chapter XXIII
Chapter XXIV
Chapter XXV
Chapter XXVI
Chapter XXVII
The Confidence Man: His Masquerade
Chapter I: A Mute Goes Aboard a Boat on the Mississippi
Chapter II: Showing That Many Men Have Many Minds
Chapter III: In Which a Variety of Characters Appear
Chapter IV: Renewal of Old Acquaintance
Chapter V: The Man with the Weed Makes It an Even Question Whether He Be a Great Sage or a Great Simpleton
Chapter VI: At the Outset of Which Certain Passengers Prove Deaf to the Call of Charity
Chapter VII: A Gentleman with Gold Sleeve-Buttons
Chapter VIII: A Charitable Lady
Chapter IX: Two Business Men Transact a Little Business
Chapter X: In the Cabin
Chapter XI: Only a Page or So
Chapter XII: Story of the Unfortunate Man, from Which May Be Gathered Whether or No He Has Been Justly So Entitled
Chapter XIII: The Man with the Traveling-Cap Evinces Much Humanity, and in a Way Which Would Seem to Show Him to Be One of the Most Logical of Optimists
Chapter XIV: Worth the Consideration of Those to Whom It May Prove Worth Considering
Chapter XV: An Old Miser, Upon Suitable Representations, Is Prevailed Upon to Venture an Investment
Chapter XVI: A Sick Man, After Some Impatience, Is Induced to Become a Patient
Chapter XVII: Towards the End of Which the Herb-Doctor Proves Himself a Forgiver of Injuries
Chapter XVIII: Inquest into the True Character of the Herb-Doctor
Chapter XIX: A Soldier of Fortune
Chapter XX: Reappearance of One Who May Be Remembered
Chapter XXI: A Hard Case
Chapter XXII: In the Polite Spirit of the Tusculan Disputations
Chapter XXIII: In Which the Powerful Effect of Natural Scenery Is Evinced in the Case of the Missourian, Who, in View of the Region Round-About Cairo, Has a Return of His Chilly Fit
Chapter XXIV: A Philanthropist Undertakes to Convert a Misanthrope, but Does Not Get Beyond Confuting Him
Chapter XXV: The Cosmopolitan Makes an Acquaintance
Chapter XXVI: Containing the Metaphysics of Indian-Hating, According to the Views of One Evidently Not So Prepossessed as Rousseau in Favor of Savages
Chapter XXVII: Some Account of a Man of Questionable Morality, but Who, Nevertheless, Would Seem Entitled to the Esteem of That Eminent English Moralist Who Said He Liked a Good Hater
Chapter XXVIII: Moot Points Touching the Late Colonel John Moredock
Chapter XXIX: The Boon Companions
Chapter XXX: Opening with a Poetical Eulogy of the Press and Continuing with Talk Inspired by the Same
Chapter XXXI: A Metamorphosis More Surprising Than Any in Ovid
Chapter XXXII: Showing That the Age of Magic and Magicians Is Not Yet Over
Chapter XXXIII: Which May Pass for Whatever It May Prove to Be Worth
Chapter XXXIV: In Which the Cosmopolitan Tells the Story of the Gentleman Madman
Chapter XXXV: In Which the Cosmopolitan Strikingly Evinces the Artlessness of His Nature
Chapter XXXVI: In Which the Cosmopolitan Is Accosted by a Mystic, Whereupon Ensues Pretty Much Such Talk as Might Be Expected
Chapter XXXVII: The Mystical Master Introduces the Practical Disciple
Chapter XXXVIII: The Disciple Unbends, and Consents to Act a Social Part
Chapter XXXIX: The Hypothetical Friends
Chapter XL: In Which the Story of China Aster Is at Second-Hand Told by One Who, While Not Disapproving the Moral, Disclaims the Spirit of the Style
Chapter XLI: Ending with a Rupture of the Hypothesis
Chapter XLII: Upon the Heel of the Last Scene the Cosmopolitan Enters the Barber’s Shop, a Benediction on His Lips
Chapter XLIII: Very Charming
Chapter XLIV: In Which the Last Three Words of the Last Chapter Are Made the Text of Discourse, Which Will Be Sure of Receiving More or Less Attention from Those Readers Who Do Not Skip It
Chapter XLV: The Cosmopolitan Increases in Seriousness
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