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Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866)

  1. The Portent

I and My Chimney (1856)

  1. I and My Chimney

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (1853)

  1. Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street

Moby-Dick (1851)

  1. Moby-Dick (Chap. 1: Loomings)
  2. Moby-Dick (Chap. 2: The Carpet-Bag)
  3. Moby-Dick (Chap. 3: The Spouter-Inn)
  4. Moby-Dick (Chap. 4: The Counterpane)
  5. Moby-Dick (Chap. 5: Breakfast)
  6. Moby-Dick (Chap. 6: The Street)
  7. Moby-Dick (Chap. 7: The Chapel)
  8. Moby-Dick (Chap. 8: The Pulpit)
  9. Moby-Dick (Chap. 9: The Sermon)
  10. Moby-Dick (Chap. 10: A Bosom Friend)
  11. Moby-Dick (Chap. 11: Nightgown)
  12. Moby-Dick (Chap. 12: Biographical)
  13. Moby-Dick (Chap. 13: Wheelbarrow)
  14. Moby-Dick (Chap. 14: Nantucket)
  15. Moby-Dick (Chap. 15: Chowder)
  16. Moby-Dick (Chap. 16: The Ship)
  17. Moby-Dick (Chap. 17: The Ramadan)
  18. Moby-Dick (Chap. 18: His Mark)
  19. Moby-Dick (Chap. 19: The Prophet)
  20. Moby-Dick (Chap. 20: All Astir)
  21. Moby-Dick (Chap. 21: Going Aboard)
  22. Moby-Dick (Chap. 22: Merry Christmas)
  23. Moby-Dick (Chap. 23: The Lee Shore)
  24. Moby-Dick (Chap. 24: The Advocate)
  25. Moby-Dick (Chap. 25: Postscript)
  26. Moby-Dick (Chap. 26: Knights and Squires)
  27. Moby-Dick (Chap. 27: Knights and Squires)
  28. Moby-Dick (Chap. 28: Ahab)
  29. Moby-Dick (Chap. 29: Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb.)
  30. Moby-Dick (Chap. 30: The Pipe)
  31. Moby-Dick (Chap. 31: Queen Mab)
  32. Moby-Dick (Chap. 32: Cetology)
  33. Moby-Dick (Chap. 33: The Specksnyder)
  34. Moby-Dick (Chap. 34: The Cabin-Table)
  35. Moby-Dick (Chap. 35: The Mast-Head)
  36. Moby-Dick (Chap. 36: The Quarter-Deck)
  37. Moby-Dick (Chap. 37: Sunset)
  38. Moby-Dick (Chap. 38: Dusk)
  39. Moby-Dick (Chap. 39: First Night Watch (Fore-Top))
  40. Moby-Dick (Chap. 40: Midnight, Forcastle (Harpooneers and Sailors))
  41. Moby-Dick (Chap. 41: Moby Dick)
  42. Moby-Dick (Chap. 42: The Whiteness of the Whale)
  43. Moby-Dick (Chap. 43: Hark!)
  44. Moby-Dick (Chap. 44: The Chart)
  45. Moby-Dick (Chap. 45: The Affidavit)
  46. Moby-Dick (Chap. 46: Surmises)
  47. Moby-Dick (Chap. 47: The Mat-Maker)
  48. Moby-Dick (Chap. 48: The First Lowering)
  49. Moby-Dick (Chap. 49: The Hyena)
  50. Moby-Dick (Chap. 50: Ahab’s Boat and Crew (Fedallah))
  51. Moby-Dick (Chap. 51: The Spirit-Spout)
  52. Moby-Dick (Chap. 52: The Albatross)
  53. Moby-Dick (Chap. 53: The Gam)
  54. Moby-Dick (Chap. 54: The Town-Ho’s Story)
  55. Moby-Dick (Chap. 55: Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales)
  56. Moby-Dick (Chap. 56: Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True Pictures of Whaling Scenes)
  57. Moby-Dick (Chap. 57: Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Stars)
  58. Moby-Dick (Chap. 58: Brit)
  59. Moby-Dick (Chap. 59: Squid)
  60. Moby-Dick (Chap. 60: The Line)
  61. Moby-Dick (Chap. 61: Stubbs Kills a Whale)
  62. Moby-Dick (Chap. 62: The Dart)
  63. Moby-Dick (Chap. 63: The Crotch)
  64. Moby-Dick (Chap. 64: Stubb’s Supper)
  65. Moby-Dick (Chap. 65: The Whale as a Dish)
  66. Moby-Dick (Chap. 66: The Shark Massacre)
  67. Moby-Dick (Chap. 67: Cutting In)
  68. Moby-Dick (Chap. 68: The Blanket)
  69. Moby-Dick (Chap. 69: The Funeral)
  70. Moby-Dick (Chap. 70: The Sphynx)
  71. Moby-Dick (Chap. 71: Jeroboam’s Story)
  72. Moby-Dick (Chap. 72: The Monkey-Rope)
  73. Moby-Dick (Chap. 73: Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk Over Him)
  74. Moby-Dick (Chap. 74: The Sperm Whale’s Head—Contrasted View)
  75. Moby-Dick (Chap. 75: The Right Whale’s Head—Contrasted View)
  76. Moby-Dick (Chap. 76: The Battering-Ram)
  77. Moby-Dick (Chap. 77: The Great Heidelburgh Tun)
  78. Moby-Dick (Chap. 78: Cisterns and Buckets)
  79. Moby-Dick (Chap. 79: The Prairie)
  80. Moby-Dick (Chap. 80: The Nut)
  81. Moby-Dick (Chap. 81: The Pequod Meets The Virgin)
  82. Moby-Dick (Chap. 82: The Honour and Glory of Whaling)
  83. Moby-Dick (Chap. 83: Jonah Historically Regarded)
  84. Moby-Dick (Chap. 84: Pitchpoling)
  85. Moby-Dick (Chap. 85: The Fountain)
  86. Moby-Dick (Chap. 86: The Tail)
  87. Moby-Dick (Chap. 87: The Grand Armada)
  88. Moby-Dick (Chap. 88: Schools and Schoolmasters)
  89. Moby-Dick (Chap. 89: Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish)
  90. Moby-Dick (Chap. 90: Heads or Tails)
  91. Moby-Dick (Chap. 91: The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud)
  92. Moby-Dick (Chap. 92: The Ambergris)
  93. Moby-Dick (Chap. 93: The Castaway)
  94. Moby-Dick (Chap. 94: A Squeeze of the Hand)
  95. Moby-Dick (Chap. 95: The Cassock)
  96. Moby-Dick (Chap. 96: The Try-Works)
  97. Moby-Dick (Chap. 97: The Lamp)
  98. Moby-Dick (Chap. 98: Stowing Down and Clearing Up)
  99. Moby-Dick (Chap. 99: The Doubloon)
  100. Moby-Dick (Chap. 100: Arm and Leg (The Pequod, of Nantucket, Meets the Samuel Enderby, of London))
  101. Moby-Dick (Chap. 101: The Decanter)
  102. Moby-Dick (Chap. 102: A Bower in the Arsacides)
  103. Moby-Dick (Chap. 103: Measurement of the Whale’s Skeleton)
  104. Moby-Dick (Chap. 104: The Fossil Whale)
  105. Moby-Dick (Chap. 105: Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish?--Will He Perish?)
  106. Moby-Dick (Chap. 106: Ahab’s Leg)
  107. Moby-Dick (Chap. 107: The Carpenter)
  108. Moby-Dick (Chap. 108: Ahab and The Carpenter)
  109. Moby-Dick (Chap. 109: Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin)
  110. Moby-Dick (Chap. 110: Queepueg in His Coffin)
  111. Moby-Dick (Chap. 111: The Pacific)
  112. Moby-Dick (Chap. 112: The Blacksmith)
  113. Moby-Dick (Chap. 113: The Forge)
  114. Moby-Dick (Chap. 114: The Gilder)
  115. Moby-Dick (Chap. 115: The Pequod Meets The Bachelor)
  116. Moby-Dick (Chap. 116: The Dying Whale)
  117. Moby-Dick (Chap. 117: The Whale Watch)
  118. Moby-Dick (Chap. 118: The Quadrant)
  119. Moby-Dick (Chap. 119: The Candles)
  120. Moby-Dick (Chap. 120: The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch)
  121. Moby-Dick (Chap. 121: Midnight -- The Forecastle Bulwarks)
  122. Moby-Dick (Chap. 123: The Musket)
  123. Moby-Dick (Chap. 124: The Need)
  124. Moby-Dick (Chap. 125: The Log and Line)
  125. Moby-Dick (Chap. 126: The Life-Buoy)
  126. Moby-Dick (Chap. 127: The Deck)
  127. Moby-Dick (Chap. 128: The Pequod Meets The Rachel)
  128. Moby-Dick (Chap. 129: The Cabin)
  129. Moby-Dick (Chap. 130: The Hat)
  130. Moby-Dick (Chap. 131: The Pequod Meets The Delight)
  131. Moby-Dick (Chap. 132: The Symphony)
  132. Moby-Dick (Chap. 133: The Chase -- First Day)
  133. Moby-Dick (Chap. 134: The Chase -- Second Day)
  134. Moby-Dick (Chap. 135: The Chase -- Third Day)
  135. Moby-Dick (Chap. 136: Epilogue)

Moby-Dick, Winter 2013-2014 St. Stephen’s Episcopal School

  1. The Epic Similes of Moby-Dick

Others

  1. My Reception Aboard
  2. Some Account of the Ship
  3. Further Account of the Julia
  4. Shiloh
  5. A Scene in the Forecastle
  6. What Happened at Hytyhoo
  7. We Touch at La Dominica
  8. What Happened at Hannamanoo
  9. The Tattooers of La Dominica
  10. Man’s Best Friend
  11. We Steer to the Westward — State of Affairs
  12. A Sea-Parlour Described, With Some of Its Tenants
  13. Doctor Long Ghost a Wag — One of His Capers
  14. Death and Burial of Two of the Crew
  15. Our Destination Changed
  16. Rope Yarn
  17. The Pacific
  18. Chips and Bungs
  19. We Encounter a Gale
  20. The Coral Islands
  21. Tahiti
  22. A Surprise — More About Bembo
  23. The Round Robin — Visitors From Shore
  24. Proceedings of the Consul
  25. The Consul’s Departure
  26. The Second Night Off Papeetee
  27. Outbreak of the Crew
  28. Jermin Encounters an Old Shipmate
  29. We Enter the Harbour — Jim the Pilot
  30. A Glance at Papeetee — We Are Sent Aboard the Frigate
  31. Reception From the Frenchman
  32. The Reine Blanche
  33. They Take Us Ashore — What Happened There
  34. The Calabooza Beretanee
  35. Proceedings of the French at Tahiti
  36. We Receive Calls at the Hotel de Calabooza
  37. Life at the Calabooza
  38. Visit From an Old Acquaintance
  39. We Are Carried Before the Consul and the Captain
  40. The French Priests Pay Their Respects
  41. Little Julia Sails Without Us
  42. Jermin Serves Us a Good Turn — Friendships in Polynesia
  43. We Take Unto Ourselves Friends
  44. We Levy Contributions on the Shipping
  45. Motoo-Otoo a Tahitian Casuist
  46. One Is Judged by the Company He Keeps
  47. Cathedral of Papoar — The Church of the Cocoa-Nuts
  48. Missionary’s Sermon; With Some Reflections
  49. Something About the Kannakippers
  50. How They Dress in Tahiti
  51. Tahiti As It Is
  52. Same Subject Continued
  53. Something Happens to Long Ghost
  54. Wilson Gives Us the Cut — Departure for Imeeo
  55. The Valley of Martair
  56. Farming in Polynesia
  57. Some Account of the Wild Cattle in Polynesia
  58. A Hunting Ramble With Zeke
  59. Mosquitoes
  60. The Second Hunt in the Mountains
  61. The Hunting-Feast; and a Visit to Afrehitoo
  62. The Murphies
  63. What They Thought of Us in Martair
  64. Preparing for the Journey
  65. Tamai
  66. A Dance in the Valley
  67. Mysterious
  68. The Hegira, or Flight
  69. How We Were to Get to Taloo
  70. The Journey Round the Beach
  71. A Dinner-Party in Imeeo
  72. The Cocoa-Palm
  73. Life at Loohooloo
  74. We Start for Taloo
  75. A Dealer in the Contraband
  76. Our Reception in Partoowye
  77. Retiring for the Night — The Doctor Grows Devout
  78. A Ramble Through the Settlement
  79. An Island Jilt — We Visit the Ship
  80. A Party of Rovers — Little Loo and the Doctor
  81. Mrs. Bell
  82. Taloo Chapel — Holding Court in Polynesia
  83. Queen Pomaree
  84. We Visit the Court
  85. Which Ends the Book
  86. A Utilitarian View of the Monitor’s Fight
  87. After the Pleasure Party: Lines Traced Under an Image of Amor Threatening
  88. American Literature Digital Anthology (Beginnings through 1914)
  89. Apathy and Enthusiasm
  90. Art
  91. Billy in the Darbies
  92. Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne
  93. Magnanimity Baffled
  94. Misgivings
  95. Moby Dick’s Ishmael
  96. Pierre; or, the Ambiguities-Ch.17
  97. Shiloh
  98. Shiloh
  99. Sweet Dreams
  100. The College Colonel
  101. The Conflict of Convictions
  102. The Maldive Shark
  103. The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids