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November 14 marks the 150th anniversary of Melville's salty saga of vengeance and obsession. Now a contender for the great American novel, this book was harpooned at the time of its 1851 publication by critics who found it overly long and boorish (observations no doubt still shared by countless high school students). They felt that like Ahab, the story didn't have much of a leg to stand on. The once lucrative whaling industry also was in its death throes and of little interest to readers. The book was forgotten for decades before being rediscovered in the 1920s by scholars who understood and appreciated the multilevel symbolism and allegory dismissed by their 19th-century predecessors. Melville published little after the failure of Moby-Dick and made his living as a customs inspector in New York City, where he was born in 1819 and died in complete obscurity in 1891. He is buried in the Bronx. This edition of his masterwork includes the full text along with illustrations of whales, whaling barks, and whaling instruments; maps; and a new introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick. A lot for the price. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. From: Reed Elsevier Inc. Copyright Reed Business Information

Herman Melville was Born in New York, the son of a merchant, and was largely self-educated. He started writing after having first sailed to Liverpool in 1839, where he joined the whaler Acushnet bound for the Pacific. Deserting the ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to Tahiti and Honolulu, returning as an ordinary seaman to Boston, where he was discharged in October 1844. Books based on these adventures, including Moby-Dick, won him immediate success. This literary attention soon faded, however, as his works' complexity increasingly alienated readers. Melville died virtually forgotten in 1891. and it was not until the 1920s that he received recognition as a key figure in American literature Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Foreword	xi
Etymology	xxiii
Extracts	xxv
Chapter 1 Loomings	3
Chapter 2 The Carpet Bag	9
Chapter 3 The Spouter-Inn	13
Chapter 4 The Counterpane	28
Chapter 5 Breakfast	33
Chapter 6 The Street	36
Chapter 7 The Chapel	39
Chapter 8 The Pulpit	43
Chapter 9 The Sermon	46
Chapter 10 A Bosom Friend	55
Chapter 11 Nightgown	59
Chapter 12 Biographical	61
Chapter 13 Wheelbarrow	64
Chapter 14 Nantucket	69
Chapter 15 Chowder	72
Chapter 16 The Ship	76
Chapter 17 The Ramadan	90
Chapter 18 His Mark	96
Chapter 19 The Prophet	100
Chapter 20 All Astir	104
Chapter 21 Going Aboard	107
Chapter 22 Merry Christmas	111
Chapter 23 The Lee Shore	116
Chapter 24 The Advocate	118
Chapter 25 Postscript	123
Chapter 26 Knights and Squires	124
Chapter 27 Knights and Squires	128
Chapter 28 Ahab	133
Chapter 29 Enter Ahab; to him, Stubb	137
Chapter 30 The Pipe	141
Chapter 31 Queen Mab	142
Chapter 32 Cetology	145
Chapter 33 The Specksynder	158
Chapter 34 The Cabin Table	161
Chapter 35 The Mast-Head	167
Chapter 36 The Quarter-Deck - Ahab and all	174
Chapter 37 Sunset	182
Chapter 38 Dusk	184
Chapter 39 First Night-Watch	186
Chapter 40 Forecastle--Midnight	187
Chapter 41 Moby Dick	194
Chapter 42 The Whiteness of the Whale	204
Chapter 43 Hark!	213
Chapter 44 The Chart	215
Chapter 45 The Affidavit	221
Chapter 46 Surmises	230
Chapter 47 The Mat-Maker	233
Chapter 48 The First Lowering	236
Chapter 49 The Hyena	247
Chapter 50 Ahab's Boat and Crew--Fedallah	250
Chapter 51 The Spirit-Spout	253
Chapter 52 The Pequod meets the Albatross	257
Chapter 53 The Gam	260
Chapter 54 The Town Ho's Story	265
Chapter 55 Monstrous Pictures of Whales	285
Chapter 56 Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales	290
Chapter 57 Of Whales in Paint, in Teeth, andc.	294
Chapter 58 Brit	297
Chapter 59 Squid	300
Chapter 60 The Line	303
Chapter 61 Stubb kills a Whale	307
Chapter 62 The Dart	313
Chapter 63 The Crotch	315
Chapter 64 Stubb's Supper	317
Chapter 65 The Whale as a Dish	325
Chapter 66 The Shark Massacre	328
Chapter 67 Cutting In	330
Chapter 68 The Blanket	332
Chapter 69 The Funeral	336
Chapter 70 The Sphynx	338
Chapter 71 The Pequod meets the Jeroboam - Her Story	341
Chapter 72 The Monkey-rope	348
Chapter 73 Stubb and Flask kill a Right Whale	353
Chapter 74 The Sperm Whale's Head	359
Chapter 75 The Right Whale's Head	364
Chapter 76 The Battering-Ram	368
Chapter 77 The Great Heidelburgh Tun	371
Chapter 78 Cistern and Buckets	373
Chapter 79 The Prairie	378
Chapter 80 The Nut	381
Chapter 81 The Pequod meets the Virgin	384
Chapter 82 The Honor and Glory of Whaling	395
Chapter 83 Jonah Historically Regarded	399
Chapter 84 Pitchpoling	402
Chapter 85 The Fountain	405
Chapter 86 The Tail	410
Chapter 87 The Grand Armada	415
Chapter 88 Schools and Schoolmasters	428
Chapter 89 Fast Fish and Loose Fish	432
Chapter 90 Heads or Tails	436
Chapter 91 The Pequod meets the Rose Bud	440
Chapter 92 Ambergris	447
Chapter 93 The Castaway	450
Chapter 94 A Squeeze of the Hand	455
Chapter 95 The Cassock	459
Chapter 96 The Try-Works	461
Chapter 97 The Lamp	466
Chapter 98 Stowing Down and Clearing Up	467
Chapter 99 The Doubloon	470
Chapter 100 The Pequod meets the Samuel Enderby of London	476
Chapter 101 The Decanter	483
Chapter 102 A Bower in the Arsacides	483
Chapter 103 Measurement of the Whale's Skeleton	493
Chapter 104 The Fossil Whale	496
Chapter 105 Does the Whale Diminish?	500
Chapter 106 Ahab's Leg	505
Chapter 107 The Carpenter	508
Chapter 108 The Deck - Ahab and the Carpenter	511
Chapter 109 The Cabin - Ahab and Starbuck	516
Chapter 110 Queequeg in his Coffin	519
Chapter 111 The Pacific	525
Chapter 112 The Blacksmith	527
Chapter 113 The Forge	530
Chapter 114 The Gilder	534
Chapter 115 The Pequod meets the Bachelor	536
Chapter 116 The Dying Whale	539
Chapter 117 The Whale-Watch	541
Chapter 118 The Quadrant	543
Chapter 119 The Candles	546
Chapter 120 The Deck	553
Chapter 121 Midnight, on the Forecastle	554
Chapter 122 Midnight, Aloft	556
Chapter 123 The Musket	557
Chapter 124 The Needle	561
Chapter 125 The Log and Line	565
Chapter 126 The Life-Buoy	569
Chapter 127 Ahab and the Carpenter	573
Chapter 128 The Pequod meets the Rachel	576
Chapter 129 The Cabin - Ahab and Pip	580
Chapter 130 The Hat	582
Chapter 131 The Pequod meets the Delight	587
Chapter 132 The Symphony	589
Chapter 133 The Chase - First Day	594
Chapter 134 The Chase - Second Day	604
Chapter 135 The Chase - Third Day	613
Epilogue	625
Map and Illustrations	626

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