Chapter 48: The First Lowering “Meantime, Ahab, out of hearing of his officers, having sided the furthest to windward, was still ranging...

Chapter 47: The Mat-Maker “It was a cloudy, sultry afternoon; the seamen were lazily lounging about the decks, or vacantly gazing over...

Chapter 46: Surmises “To accomplish his object Ahab must use tools; and of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are most apt to...

Chapter 45: The Affidavit “Now, the Captain D’Wolf here alluded to as commanding the ship in question, is a New Englander, who, after a...

Chapter 45: The Affidavit “So far as what there may be of a narrative in this book; and, indeed, as indirectly touching one or two very...

Chapter 44: The Chart “And here, his mad mind would run on in a breathless race; till a weariness and faintness of pondering came over...

Chapter 44: The Chart “While thus employed, the heavy pewter lamp suspended in chains over his head, continually rocked with the motion...

Chapter 43: Hark! “Hist! did you hear that noise, Cabaco?” “Take the bucket, will ye, Archy? what noise d’ye mean?” “There it is...

Chapter 42: The Whiteness of the Whale “Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the...

Chapter 42: Moby-Dick “What the White Whale was to them, or how to their unconscious understandings, also, in some dim, unsuspected way,...

Chapter 41: Moby-Dick “Yet, when by this collision forced to turn towards home, and for long months of days and weeks, Ahab and anguish...

Chapter 41: Moby-Dick “Small reason was there to doubt, then, that ever since that almost fatal encounter, Ahab had cherished a wild...

Chapter 41: Moby-Dick “Forced into familiarity, then, with such prodigies as these; and knowing that after repeated, intrepid assaults,...

Chapter 41: Moby-Dick “The whale fishery surpasses every other sort of maritime life, in the wonderfulness and fearfulness of the rumors...

Chapter 41: Moby-Dick “I, Ishmael, was one of that crew; my shouts had gone up with the rest; my oath had been welded with theirs; and...

Chapter 40: Midnight, Forecastle AZORE SAILOR. (Dancing) Go it, Pip! Bang it, bell-boy! Rig it, dig it, stig it, quig it, bell-boy! Make...

Chapter 39: First Night Watch “(Stubb solus, and mending a brace.) Ha! ha! ha! ha! hem! clear my throat!—I’ve been thinking over it ever...

Chapter 38: Dusk “By the Mainmast; Starbuck leaning against it. My soul is more than matched; she’s overmanned; and by a madman!...

Chapter 37: Day 41: Sunset “The prophecy was that I should be dismembered; and—Aye! I lost this leg. I now prophesy that I will dismember...

Chapter 37: Day 40: Sunset “Oh! time was, when as the sunrise nobly spurred me, so the sunset soothed. No more. This lovely light, it...