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Moby-Dick, or, The Whale

Looking for adventure and a new life, Ishmael, the story's narrator, decides to find work on a whaling boat. On arriving at the Massachusetts harbour to begin his search, the only bed available is already half occupied by a "cannibal" named Queequeg. Although Queequeg has limited English, a friendship forms and the two men sign up for work together aboard the Pequod under the infamous Captain Ahab.

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780142437247 (pbk.)
ISBN	0142437247
Classification Number	F
Author	Melville, Herman,1819-1891
Title	Moby-Dick, or, The Whale [BK]
Physical Description	ill., map ;
Note	This ed.Originally published: 1992 Penguin Books,.
Note	Whale.
Contents	Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- A Note on the Text -- Etymology -- Extracts -- Moby Dick -- 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 -- Postscript -- 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 • Ahab and all -- Sunset -- Dusk -- First Night-Watch -- Forecastle---Midnight -- 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 Pequod meets the Albatross -- The Gam -- The Town Ho's Story -- Monstrous Pictures of Whales -- Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales -- Of Whales in Paint, in Teeth, &c. -- 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 Pequod meets the Jeroboam • Her Story -- The Monkey-rope -- Stubb & Flask kill a Right Whale -- The Sperm Whale's Head -- The Right Whale's Head -- The Battering-Ram -- The Great Heidelburgh Tun -- Cistern and Buckets -- The Prairie -- The Nut -- The Pequod meets the Virgin -- The Honor and Glory of Whaling -- Jonah Historically Regarded -- Pitchpoling -- The Fountain -- The Tail -- The Grand Armada -- Schools & Schoolmasters -- Fast Fish and Loose Fish -- Heads or Tails -- The Pequod meets the Rose Bud -- Ambergris -- The Castaway -- A Squeeze of the Hand -- The Cassock -- The Try-Works -- The Lamp -- Stowing Down & Clearing Up -- The Doubloon -- The Pequod meets the Samuel Enderby of London -- The Decanter -- A Bower in the Arsacides -- Measurement of the Whale's Skeleton -- The Fossil Whale -- Does the Whale Diminish? -- Ahab's Leg -- The Carpenter -- The Deck • Ahab and the Carpenter -- The Cabin • Ahab and Starbuck -- Queequeg in his Coffin -- The Pacific -- The Blacksmith -- The Forge -- The Gilder -- The Pequod meets the Bachelor -- The Dying Whale -- The Whale-Watch -- The Quadrant -- The Candles -- The Deck -- Midnight, on the Forecastle -- Midnight, Aloft -- The Musket -- The Needle -- The Log and Line -- The Life-Buoy -- Ahab and the Carpenter -- The Pequod meets the Rachel -- The Cabin •Ahab and Pip -- The Hat -- The Pequod meets the Delight -- The Symphony -- The Chase • First Day -- The Chase • Second Day -- The Chase • Third Day -- Epilogue -- List of Textual Emendations -- Explanatory Notes -- Glossary of Nautical Terms -- Maps and Illustrations.
Contents	Looking for adventure and a new life, Ishmael, the story's narrator, decides to find work on a whaling boat. On arriving at the Massachusetts harbour to begin his search, the only bed available is already half occupied by a "cannibal" named Queequeg. Although Queequeg has limited English, a friendship forms and the two men sign up for work together aboard the Pequod under the infamous Captain Ahab.
Subject	Classical fiction
	Shipwrecks
	Whales
	Whaling
	Whaling ships
	Sailors
	Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)
	Ship captains
	Mentally ill
	FICTION / Classics
	FICTION / Literary
	Shipwrecks -- Fiction
	Ship captains -- Fiction
	Mentally ill -- Fiction
	Whales -- Fiction
Additional Author	Quirk, Tom, 1946-
Internet Site	http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0716/2003272426-d.html
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