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Tables of Contents for Moby Dick
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Etymology
xv
Extracts
xvii
Loomings
3
5
The Carpet Bag
8
4
The Spouter-Inn
12
13
The Counterpane
25
4
Breakfast
29
2
The Street
31
3
The Chapel
34
4
The Pulpit
38
3
The Sermon
41
8
A Bosom Friend
49
4
Nightgown
53
2
Biographical
55
3
Wheelbarrow
58
5
Nantucket
63
2
Chowder
65
3
The Ship
68
13
The Ramadan
81
6
His Mark
87
4
The Prophet
91
4
All Astir
95
3
Going Aboard
98
4
Merry Christmas
102
4
The Lee Shore
106
2
The Advocate
108
5
Postscript
113
2
Knights and Squires
115
3
Knights and Squires
118
4
Ahab
122
4
Enter Ahab; to him, Stubb
126
3
The Pipe
129
2
Queen Mab
131
3
Cetology
134
12
The Specksynder
146
3
The Cabin Table
149
5
The Mast-Head
154
6
The Quarter-Deck Ahab and all
160
7
Sunset
167
2
Dusk
169
2
First Night-Watch
171
2
Forecastle---Midnight
173
6
Moby Dick
179
9
The Whiteness of the Whale
188
8
Hark!
196
2
The Chart
198
5
The Affidavit
203
8
Surmises
211
3
The Mat-Maker
214
3
The First Lowering
217
9
The Hyena
226
3
Ahab's Boat and Crew---Fedallah
229
3
The Spirit-Spout
232
4
The Pequod meets the Albatross
236
2
The Gam
238
4
The Town Ho's Story
242
18
Monstrous Pictures of Whales
260
5
Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales
265
4
Of Whales in Paint, in Teeth, &c
269
3
Brit
272
3
Squid
275
3
The Line
278
4
Stubb kills a Whale
282
5
The Dart
287
2
The Crotch
289
2
Stubb's Supper
291
7
The Whale as a Dish
298
3
The Shark Massacre
301
2
Cutting In
303
2
The Blanket
305
3
The Funeral
308
2
The Sphynx
310
3
The Pequod meets the Jeroboam Her Story
313
6
The Monkey-rope
319
4
Stubb & Flask kill a Right Whale
323
6
The Sperm Whale's Head
329
4
The Right Whale's Head
333
3
The Battering Ram
336
3
The Great Heidelburgh Tun
339
2
Cistern and Buckets
341
4
The Prairie
345
3
The Nut
348
3
The Pequod meets the Virgin
351
10
The Honor and Glory of Whaling
361
3
Jonah Historically Regarded
364
3
Pitchpoling
367
3
The Fountain
370
5
The Tail
375
5
The Grand Armada
380
11
Schools & Schoolmasters
391
4
Fast Fish and Loose Fish
395
4
Heads or Tails
399
3
The Pequod meets the Rose Bud
402
6
Ambergris
408
3
The Castaway
411
4
A Squeeze of the Hand
415
4
The Cassock
419
2
The Try-Works
421
5
The Lamp
426
1
Stowing Down & Clearing Up
427
3
The Doubloon
430
6
The Pequod meets the Samuel Enderby of London
436
7
The Decanter
443
5
A Bower in the Arsacides
448
4
Measurement of the Whale's Skeleton
452
3
The Fossil Whale
455
4
Does the Whale Diminish?
459
4
Ahab's Leg
463
3
The Carpenter
466
3
The Deck Ahab and the Carpenter
469
4
The Cabin Ahab and Starbuck
473
3
Queequeg in his Coffin
476
6
The Pacific
482
2
The Blacksmith
484
3
The Forge
487
4
The Gilder
491
2
The Pequod meets the Bachelor
493
3
The Dying Whale
496
2
The Whale-Watch
498
2
The Quadrant
500
3
The Candles
503
6
The Deck
509
1
Midnight, on the Forecastle
510
2
Midnight, Aloft
512
1
The Musket
513
3
The Needle
516
4
The Log and Line
520
3
The Life-Buoy
523
4
Ahab and the Carpenter
527
3
The Pequod meets the Rachel
530
4
The Cabin Ahab and Pip
534
2
The Hat
536
4
The Pequod meets the Delight
540
2
The Symphony
542
4
The Chase First Day
546
9
The Chase Second Day
555
8
The Chase Third Day
563
10
Epilogue
573
448
EDITORIAL APPENDIX
Historical Note
581
182
Textual Record
763
192
Note on the Text
763
46
Discussions of Adopted Readings
809
98
List of Emendations
907
14
Report of Line-End Hyphenation
921
8
List of Substantive Variants
929
26
Related Documents
955
66
Melville's Notes (1849-51) in a Shakespeare Volume
955
16
Melville's Notes in Chase's Narrative of the Essex
971
26
Melville's Acushnet Crew Memorandum
997
8
The Hubbard Copy of The Whale
1005
16
The Jones Copy of Moby-Dick and the Harper Whale Title Page
1021