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Moby-Dick is a novel by Herman Melville that tells the story of a whaling ship called the Pequod and its captain, Ahab. The novel is considered to be one of the Great American Novels, and it has been praised for its literary qualities and its exploration of themes such as obsession and revenge. Moby-Dick is also notable for its detailed descriptions of whaling scenes and its use of vernacular language.

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Publié par	Interactive Media
Date de parution	15 juillet 2012
Nombre de lectures	5
EAN13	9781909175440
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
The Whale

Published by Urban Romantics
This Edition
First published in 2012
Copyright © 2012 Urban Romantics
ISBN: 9781909175440
Contents
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
CHAPTER 57. OF WHALES IN PAINT; IN TEETH; IN WOOD; IN SHEET-IRON; IN
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
ETYMOLOGY.
(Supplied by a Late Consumptive Usher to a Grammar School)
The pale Usher-threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality.
“While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue leaving out, through ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh the signification of the word, you deliver that which is not true.”
-HACKLUYT
“WHALE.... Sw. and Dan. HVAL. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. HVALT is arched or vaulted.”
-WEBSTER’S DICTIONARY
“WHALE.... It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. WALLEN; A.S. WALW-IAN, to roll, to wallow.”
-RICHARDSON’S DICTIONARY
KETOS,GREEK.
CETUS,LATIN.
WHOEL,ANGLO-SAXON.
HVALT,DANISH.
WAL,DUTCH.
HWAL,SWEDISH.
WHALE,ICELANDIC.
WHALE,ENGLISH.
BALEINE,FRENCH.
BALLENA,SPANISH.
PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE,FEGEE.
PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE,ERROMANGOAN.
EXTRACTS
(Supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian).
It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane. Therefore you must not, in every case at least, take the higgledy-piggledy whale statements, however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extracts are solely valuable or entertaining, as affording a glancing bird’s eye view of what has been promiscuously said, thought, fancied, and sung of Leviathan, by many nations and generations, including our own.
So fare thee well, poor devil of a Sub-Sub, whose commentator I am. Thou belongest to that hopeless, sallow tribe which no wine of this world will ever warm; and for whom even Pale Sherry would be too rosy-strong; but with whom one sometimes loves to sit, and feel poor-devilish, too; and grow convivial upon tears; and say to them bluntly, with full eyes and empty glasses, and in not altogether unpleasant sadness-Give it up, Sub-Subs! For by how much the more pains ye take to please the world, by so much the more shall ye for ever go thankless! Would that I could clear out Hampton Court and the Tuileries for ye! But gulp down your tears and hie aloft to the royal-mast with your hearts; for your friends who have gone before are clearing out the seven-storied heavens, and making refugees of long-pampered Gabriel, Michael, and Raphael, against your coming. Here ye strike but splintered hearts together-there, ye shall strike unsplinterable glasses!
EXTRACTS.
“And God created great whales.”
-GENESIS.
“Leviathan maketh a path to shine after him; One would think the deep to be hoary.”
-JOB.
“Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.”
-JONAH.
“There go the ships; there is that Leviathan whom thou hast made to play therein.”
-PSALMS.
“In that day, the Lord with his sore, and great, and strong sword, shall punish Leviathan the piercing serpent, even Leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.”
-ISAIAH
“And what thing soever besides cometh within the chaos of this monster’s mouth, be it beast, boat, or stone, down it goes all incontinently that foul great swallow of his, and perisheth in the bottomless gulf of his paunch.”
-HOLLAND’S PLUTARCH’S MORALS.
“The Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are: among which the Whales and Whirlpooles called Balaene, take up as much in length as four acres or arpens of land.”
-HOLLAND’S PLINY.
“Scarcely had we proceeded two days on the sea, when about sunrise a great many Whales and other monsters of the sea, appeared. Among the former, one was of a most monstrous size.... This came towards us, open-mouthed, raising the waves on all sides, and beating the sea before him into a foam.”
-TOOKE’S LUCIAN. “THE TRUE HISTORY.”
“He visited this country also with a view of catching horse-whales, which had bones of very great value for their teeth, of which he brought some to the king.... The best whales were catched in his own country, of which some were forty-eight, some fifty yards long. He said that he was one of six who had killed sixty in two days.”
-OTHER OR OTHER’S VERBAL NARRATIVE TAKEN DOWN FROM HIS MOUTH BY KING ALFRED, A.D. 890.
“And whereas all the other things, whether beast or vessel, that enter into the dreadful gulf of this monster’s (whale’s) mouth, are immediately lost and swallowed up, the sea-gudgeon retires into it in great security, and there sleeps.”
-MONTAIGNE. -APOLOGY FOR RAIMOND SEBOND.
“Let us fly, let us fly! Old Nick take me if is not Leviathan described by the noble prophet Moses in the life of patient Job.”
-RABELAIS.
“This whale’s liver was two cartloads.”
-STOWE’S ANNALS.
“The great Leviathan that maketh the seas to seethe like boiling pan.”
-LORD BACON’S VERSION OF THE PSALMS.
“Touching that monstrous bulk of the whale or ork we have received nothing certain. They grow exceeding fat,