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| Genre/Form: | Sea stories Fiction Psychological fiction Adventure fiction |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Herman Melville; Joseph Ciardiello; Thomas J Fleming |
| ISBN: | 0895773228 9780895773227 0679600108 9780679600107 |
| OCLC Number: | 20390702 |
| Notes: | "This Reader's Digest edition contains the complete text of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, first published in 1851"--Title page verso. |
| Awards: | The Great American Read, 2018. |
| Description: | 495 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Loomings -- The carpetbag -- The Spouter Inn -- The counterpane -- Breakfast -- The street -- the chapel -- The pulpit -- The sermon -- A bosom friend -- Nightgown -- Biiographical -- Wheelbarrow -- Nantucket -- Chowder -- The ship -- The Ramadan -- His mark -- The prophet -- All astir -- Going abroad -- 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 Specksnyder -- The cabin table -- The masthead -- The quarterdeck -- 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 -- Of the monstrous pictures of whales -- Of the 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 Spinx -- The Pequod meets the Jeroboam -- The monkey rope -- Stubb and flask kill a right whale -- The sperm whale's head-contrasted view -- The right whale's head-contrasted view -- The battering ram -- The great Heidelberg 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 and schoolmasters -- Fast fish and loose fish -- Heads or tails -- The Pequod meets the Rosebud -- Ambergris -- The castaway -- A squeeze of the hand -- The Cassock -- The tryworks -- The lamp -- Stowing down and 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's magnitude diminish? -- Ahab's leg -- The carpenter -- Ahan and the carpenter -- Ahab and starbuck in the cabin -- 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-the forecastle Bulwarks -- Midnight aloft-Thunder and lightning -- The musket -- The needle -- The log and line -- The life buoy -- The deck -- The Pequod meets the Rachel -- The cabin -- The hat -- The Pequod meets the Delight -- The symphony -- The chase-first day -- The chase-second day -- The chase-third day -- Eiologue -- Afterword. |
| Series Title: | World's best reading. |
| Responsibility: | Herman Melville ; illustrations by Joseph Ciardiello ; afterword by Thomas Fleming. |
Abstract:
A young seaman joins the crew of the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.
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