Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
Read the complete Moby-Dick; or, The Whale learning edition with ordered chapters, clear narration, and vocabulary in context.
The complete 1851 text of Herman Melville’s maritime epic, including Etymology, Extracts, all 135 chapters, and the Epilogue, presented in five-sentence readings with original chapter-context illustrations.
135 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
US EnglishNarration and vocabulary
Course Syllabus
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Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
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- Chapter I Loomings
- Chapter II The Carpet-Bag
- Chapter III The Spouter-Inn
- Chapter IV The Counterpane
- Chapter V Breakfast
- Chapter VI The Street
- Chapter VII The Chapel
- Chapter VIII The Pulpit
- Chapter IX The Sermon
- Chapter X A Bosom Friend
- Chapter XI Nightgown
- Chapter XII Biographical
- Chapter XIII Wheelbarrow
- Chapter XIV Nantucket
- Chapter XV Chowder
- Chapter XVI The Ship
- Chapter XVII The Ramadan
- Chapter XVIII His Mark
- Chapter XIX The Prophet
- Chapter XX All Astir
- Chapter XXI Going Aboard
- Chapter XXII Merry Christmas
- Chapter XXIII The Lee Shore
- Chapter XXIV The Advocate
- Chapter XXV Postscript
- Chapter XXVI Knights And Squires
- Chapter XXVII Knights And Squires
- Chapter XXVIII Ahab
- Chapter XXIX Enter Ahab; To Him, Stubb
- Chapter XXX The Pipe
- Chapter XXXI Queen Mab
- Chapter XXXII Cetology
- Chapter XXXIII The Specksnyder
- Chapter XXXIV The Cabin-Table
- Chapter XXXV The Mast-Head
- Chapter XXXVI The Quarter-Deck
- Chapter XXXVII Sunset
- Chapter XXXVIII Dusk
- Chapter XXXIX First Night-Watch
- Chapter XL Midnight, Forecastle
- Chapter XLI Moby Dick
- Chapter XLII The Whiteness Of The Whale
- Chapter XLIII Hark!
- Chapter XLIV The Chart
- Chapter XLV The Affidavit
- Chapter XLVI Surmises
- Chapter XLVII The Mat-Maker
- Chapter XLVIII The First Lowering
- Chapter XLIX The Hyena
- Chapter L Ahab’S Boat And Crew. Fedallah
- Chapter LI The Spirit-Spout
- Chapter LII The Albatross
- Chapter LIII The Gam
- Chapter LIV The Town-Ho’S Story
- Chapter LV Of The Monstrous Pictures Of Whales
- Chapter LVI Of The Less Erroneous Pictures Of Whales, And The True Pictures Of Whaling Scenes
- Chapter LVII Of Whales In Paint; In Teeth; In Wood; In Sheet-Iron; In Stone; In Mountains; In Stars
- Chapter LVIII Brit
- Chapter LIX Squid
- Chapter LX The Line
- Chapter LXI Stubb Kills A Whale
- Chapter LXII The Dart
- Chapter LXIII The Crotch
- Chapter LXIV Stubb’S Supper
- Chapter LXV The Whale As A Dish
- Chapter LXVI The Shark Massacre
- Chapter LXVII Cutting In
- Chapter LXVIII The Blanket
- Chapter LXIX The Funeral
- Chapter LXX The Sphynx
- Chapter LXXI The Jeroboam’S Story
- Chapter LXXII The Monkey-Rope
- Chapter LXXIII Stubb And Flask Kill A Right Whale; And Then Have A Talk Over Him
- Chapter LXXIV The Sperm Whale’S Head—Contrasted View
- Chapter LXXV The Right Whale’S Head—Contrasted View
- Chapter LXXVI The Battering-Ram
- Chapter LXXVII The Great Heidelburgh Tun
- Chapter LXXVIII Cistern And Buckets
- Chapter LXXIX The Praire
- Chapter LXXX The Nut
- Chapter LXXXI The Pequod Meets The Virgin
- Chapter LXXXII The Honor And Glory Of Whaling
- Chapter LXXXIII Jonah Historically Regarded
- Chapter LXXXIV Pitchpoling
- Chapter LXXXV The Fountain
- Chapter LXXXVI The Tail
- Chapter LXXXVII The Grand Armada
- Chapter LXXXVIII Schools And Schoolmasters
- Chapter LXXXIX Fast-Fish And Loose-Fish
- Chapter XC Heads Or Tails
- Chapter XCI The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud
- Chapter XCII Ambergris
- Chapter XCIII The Castaway
- Chapter XCIV A Squeeze Of The Hand
- Chapter XCV The Cassock
- Chapter XCVI The Try-Works
- Chapter XCVII The Lamp
- Chapter XCVIII Stowing Down And Clearing Up
- Chapter XCIX The Doubloon
- Chapter C Leg And Arm. The Pequod, Of Nantucket, Meets The Samuel Enderby, Of London
- Chapter CI The Decanter
- Chapter CII A Bower In The Arsacides
- Chapter CIII Measurement Of The Whale’S Skeleton
- Chapter CIV The Fossil Whale
- Chapter CV Does The Whale’S Magnitude Diminish?—Will He Perish?
- Chapter CVI Ahab’S Leg
- Chapter CVII The Carpenter
- Chapter CVIII Ahab And The Carpenter
- Chapter CIX Ahab And Starbuck In The Cabin
- Chapter CX Queequeg In His Coffin
- Chapter CXI The Pacific
- Chapter CXII The Blacksmith
- Chapter CXIII The Forge
- Chapter CXIV The Gilder
- Chapter CXV The Pequod Meets The Bachelor
- Chapter CXVI The Dying Whale
- Chapter CXVII The Whale Watch
- Chapter CXVIII The Quadrant
- Chapter CXIX The Candles
- Chapter CXX The Deck Towards The End Of The First Night Watch
- Chapter CXXI Midnight—The Forecastle Bulwarks
- Chapter CXXII Midnight Aloft—Thunder And Lightning
- Chapter CXXIII The Musket
- Chapter CXXIV The Needle
- Chapter CXXV The Log And Line
- Chapter CXXVI The Life-Buoy
- Chapter CXXVII The Deck
- Chapter CXXVIII The Pequod Meets The Rachel
- Chapter CXXIX The Cabin
- Chapter CXXX The Hat
- Chapter CXXXI The Pequod Meets The Delight
- Chapter CXXXII The Symphony
- Chapter CXXXIII The Chase—First Day
- Chapter CXXXIV The Chase—Second Day
- Chapter CXXXV The Chase—Third Day