Screen LibraryGreat books of the Western World. V. 48, Moby Dick, or, The whale /
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Encyclopædia Britannica,
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| Publisher Address: | Chicago : |
| Publication Dates: |
1984. ©1952 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Twenty-sixth printing of the 1952 edition. |
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| Carrier Form: | xx, 420 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Bibliographical footnotes. |
| ISBN: | 0852291639 (set) |
| CLC: | Z4 |
| Call Number: | #P004328 |
| Contents: | Loomings -- Carpet bag -- Spouter Inn -- Counterpane -- Breakfast -- Street -- Chapel -- Pulpit -- Sermon -- Bosom friend -- Nightgown -- Biographical -- Wheelbarrow -- Nantucket -- Chowder -- Ship -- Ramadan -- His mark -- Prophet -- All astir -- Going aboard -- Merry Christmas -- Lee shore -- Advocate -- Postscript -- Knights and Squires -- Knights and squires(cont.) -- Ahab -- Enter Ahab; to him, Stubb -- Pipe -- Queen Mab -- Cetology -- Specksynder -- Cabin table -- Masthead -- Quarterdeck -- Sunset -- Dusk -- First night-watch -- Midnight: Forecastle -- Moby Dick -- Whiteness of the whale -- Hark! -- Chart -- Affidavit -- Surmises -- Mat-maker -- First lowering -- Hyena -- Ahab's boat and crew; Fedallah -- Spirit-spout -- Albatross -- Gam -- Town-Ho's story -- Of the monstrous pictures of whales -- Of the less erroneous pictures of whales, and the true pictures of whaling scenes -- Of whales in paint; in teeth; in wood; in sheetiron; in stone; in mountains; in stars -- Brit -- Squid -- Line -- Stubb kills a whale -- Dart -- Crotch -- Stubb's supper -- Whale as a dish -- Shark massacre -- Cutting-in -- Blanket -- Funeral -- Sphinx -- Jeroboam's story -- Monkey-rope -- Stubb and Flask kill a right whale, and then have a talk over him -- Sperm whale's head; contrasted view -- Right whale's head; contrasted view -- Battering-ram -- Great Heidelburgh turn -- Cistern and buckets -- Prairie -- Nut -- Pequod meets the Virgin -- Honour and glory of whaling -- Jonah historically regarded -- Pitchpoling -- Fountain -- Tail -- Grand armada -- Schools and schoolmasters -- Fast-fish and loose-fish -- Heads or tails -- Pequod meets the Rosebud -- Ambergris -- Castaway -- Squeeze of the hand -- Cassock -- Try-works -- Lamp -- Stowing down and clearing up -- Doubloon -- Leg and arm; the Pequod of Nantucket meets the Samuel Enderby of London -- Decanter -- Bower in the Arsacides -- Measurement of the Whale's skeleton -- Fossil whale -- Does the whale's magnitude diminish? Will |