Moby Dick / Herman Melville ; edited with an introduction and notes by Tony Tanner.

Includes bibliographical references (page xxx).

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 -- 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 -- Sunset -- Dusk -- First Night-Watch -- Midnight, Forecastle -- 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 Albatross -- The Gam -- The 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 Sheet-iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Stars -- 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 Jeroboam's Story -- The Monkey-Rope -- Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk over Him -- The Sperm Whale's Head--Contrasted View -- The Right Whale's Head--Contrasted View -- The Battering-Ram.

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A classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale, who defied capture.

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