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Moby Dick, or, The whale

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Melville, Herman

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Loomings

Carpet bag

Spouter Inn

Counterpane

Breakfast

Street

Chapel

Pulpit

Sermon

Bosom friend

Nightgown

Biographical

Wheelbarrow

Nantucket

Chowder

Ship

Ramadan

His mark

Prophet

All astir

Going aboard

Merry Christmas

Lee shore

Advocate

Postscript

Knights and Squires

Knights and squires(cont.)

Ahab

Enter Ahab; to him, Stubb

Pipe

Queen Mab

Cetology

Specksynder

Cabin table

Masthead

Quarterdeck

Sunset

Dusk

First night-watch

Midnight: Forecastle

Moby Dick

Whiteness of the whale

Hark!

Chart

Affidavit

Surmises

Mat-maker

First lowering

Hyena

Ahab's boat and crew; Fedallah

Spirit-spout

Albatross

Gam

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 sheetiron; in stone; in mountains; in stars

Brit

Squid

Line

Stubb kills a whale

Dart

Crotch

Stubb's supper

Whale as a dish

Shark massacre

Cutting-in

Blanket

Funeral

Sphinx

Jeroboam's story

Monkey-rope

Stubb and Flask kill a right whale, and then have a talk over him

Sperm whale's head; contrasted view

Right whale's head; contrasted view

Battering-ram

Great Heidelburgh turn

Cistern and buckets

Prairie

Nut

Pequod meets the Virgin

Honour and glory of whaling

Jonah historically regarded

Pitchpoling

Fountain

Tail

Grand armada

Schools and schoolmasters

Fast-fish and loose-fish

Heads or tails

Pequod meets the Rosebud

Ambergris

Castaway

Squeeze of the hand

Cassock

Try-works

Lamp

Stowing down and clearing up

Doubloon

Leg and arm; the Pequod of Nantucket meets the Samuel Enderby of London

Decanter

Bower in the Arsacides

Measurement of the Whale's skeleton

Fossil whale

Does the whale's magnitude diminish? Will he perish?

Ahab's leg

Carpenter

Ahab and the carpenter

Ahab and Starbuck in the cabin

Queequeg in his coffin

Pacific

Blacksmith

Forge

Gilder

Pequod meets the Bachelor

Dying whale

Whale watch

Quadrant

Candles

Deck towards the end of the first night watch

Midnight: The forecastle bulwarks

Midnight aloft; thunder and lightning

Musket

Needle

Log and line

Lifebuoy

Deck

Pequod meets the Rachel

Cabin

Hat

Pequod meets the Delight

Symphony

Chase first day

Chase second day

Chase third day

Epilogue.

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Subjects

Adventure fiction
Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)
Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Classic Literature
Electronic books
Fiction
Large print books
Large print books.‡2lcgft
Large type books
Mentally ill
Mentally ill -- Fiction
Nature
Psychological fiction
Sailors
Sailors -- Fiction
Sea captains
Sea captains -- Fiction
Sea stories
Ship captains
Ship captains -- Fiction
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks -- Fiction
Whales
Whales -- Fiction
Whaling
Whaling -- Fiction
Whaling ships
Whaling ships -- Fiction

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Hayford, Harrison
Kent, Rockwell,1882-1971 ill
Melville, Herman Author
Melville, Herman Author
Parker, Hershel

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Tanselle, G. Thomas1934
Thorp, Willard,1899-1990

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ISBN

9780810119116
9782384613021
9780852291634
9780553210071
9781620117002
9780553213119
9780143124672
9780394608044
9781597229791
9780679783275
067978327

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