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Tables of Contents for Moby-Dick
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xi
Suggestions for Further Reading
xxix
A Note on the Text
xxxi
Moby-Dick
Etymology
xxxvii
Extracts
xxxix
Loomings
3
6
The Carpet Bag
9
4
The Spouter-Inn
13
15
The Counterpane
28
5
Breakfast
33
3
The Street
36
3
The Chapel
39
4
The Pulpit
43
3
The Sermon
46
9
A Bosom Friend
55
4
Nightgown
59
2
Biographical
61
3
Wheelbarrow
64
5
Nantucket
69
3
Chowder
72
4
The Ship
76
14
The Ramadan
90
6
His Mark
96
4
The Prophet
100
4
All Astir
104
3
Going Aboard
107
4
Merry Christmas
111
5
The Lee Shore
116
2
The Advocate
118
5
Postscript
123
1
Knights and Squires
124
4
Knights and Squires
128
5
Ahab
133
4
Enter Ahab; to him, Stubb
137
4
The Pipe
141
1
Queen Mab
142
3
Cetology
145
13
The Specksynder
158
3
The Cabin Table
161
6
The Mast-Head
167
7
The Quarter-Deck Ahab and all
174
8
Sunset
182
2
Dusk
184
2
First Night-Watch
186
1
Forecastle---Midnight
187
7
Moby Dick
194
10
The Whiteness of the Whale
204
9
Hark!
213
2
The Chart
215
6
The Affidavit
221
9
Surmises
230
3
The Mat-Maker
233
3
The First Lowering
236
11
The Hyena
247
3
Ahab's Boat and Crew---Fedallah
250
3
The Spirit-Spout
253
4
The Pequod meets the Albatross
257
3
The Gam
260
5
The Town Ho's Story
265
20
Monstrous Pictures of Whales
285
5
Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales
290
4
Of Whales in Paint, in Teeth, & c.
294
3
Brit
297
3
Squid
300
3
The Line
303
4
Stubb kills a Whale
307
6
The Dart
313
2
The Crotch
315
2
Stubb's Supper
317
8
The Whale as a Dish
325
3
The Shark Massacre
328
2
Cutting In
330
2
The Blanket
332
4
The Funeral
336
2
The Sphynx
338
3
The Pequod meets the Jeroboam Her Story
341
7
The Monkey-rope
348
5
Stubb & Flask kill a Right Whale
353
6
The Sperm Whale's Head
359
5
The Right Whale's Head
364
4
The Battering-Ram
368
3
The Great Heidelburgh Tun
371
2
Cistern and Buckets
373
5
The Prairie
378
3
The Nut
381
3
The Pequod meets the Virgin
384
11
The Honor and Glory of Whaling
395
4
Jonah Historically Regarded
399
3
Pitchpoling
402
3
The Fountain
405
5
The Tail
410
5
The Grand Armada
415
13
Schools & Schoolmasters
428
4
Fast Fish and Loose Fish
432
4
Heads or Tails
436
4
The Pequod meets the Rose Bud
440
7
Ambergris
447
3
The Castaway
450
5
A Squeeze of the Hand
455
4
The Cassock
459
2
The Try-Works
461
5
The Lamp
466
1
Stowing Down & Clearing Up
467
3
The Doubloon
470
6
The Pequod meets the Samuel Enderby of London
476
7
The Decanter
483
1
A Bower in the Arsacides
483
10
Measurement of the Whale's Skeleton
493
3
The Fossil Whale
496
4
Does the Whale Diminish?
500
5
Ahab's Leg
505
3
The Carpenter
508
3
The Deck Ahab and the Carpenter
511
5
The Cabin Ahab and Starbuck
516
3
Queequeg in his Coffin
519
6
The Pacific
525
2
The Blacksmith
527
3
The Forge
530
4
The Gilder
534
2
The Pequod meets the Bachelor
536
3
The Dying Whale
539
2
The Whale-Watch
541
2
The Quadrant
543
3
The Candles
546
7
The Deck
553
1
Midnight, on the Forecastle
554
2
Midnight, Aloft
556
1
The Musket
557
4
The Needle
561
4
The Log and Line
565
4
The Life-Buoy
569
4
Ahab and the Carpenter
573
3
The Pequod meets the Rachel
576
4
The Cabin Ahab and Pip
580
2
The Hat
582
5
The Pequod meets the Delight
587
2
The Symphony
589
5
The Chase First Day
594
10
The Chase Second Day
604
9
The Chase Third Day
613
12
Epilogue
625
4
List of Textual Emendations
629
6
Explanatory Notes
635
16
Glossary of Nautical Terms
651
4
Maps and Illustrations
655