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Sample ## Take a look inside MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE. By Herman Melville CONTENTS ETYMOLOGY. EXTRACTS (Supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian). CHAPTER 1. Loomings. CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag. CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn. CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane. CHAPTER 5. Breakfast. CHAPTER 6. The Street. CHAPTER 7. The Chapel. CHAPTER 8. The Pulpit. CHAPTER 9. The Sermon. CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend. CHAPTER 11. Nightgown. CHAPTER 12. Biographical. CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow. CHAPTER 14. Nantucket. CHAPTER 15. Chowder. CHAPTER 16. The Ship. CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan. CHAPTER 18. His Mark. CHAPTER 19. The Prophet. CHAPTER 20. All Astir. CHAPTER 21. Going Aboard. CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas. CHAPTER 23. The Lee Shore. CHAPTER 24. The Advocate. CHAPTER 25. Postscript. CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires. CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires. CHAPTER 28. Ahab. CHAPTER 29. Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb. CHAPTER 30. The Pipe. CHAPTER 31. Queen Mab. CHAPTER 32. Cetology. CHAPTER 33. The Specksnyder. CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table. CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head. CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck. CHAPTER 37. Sunset. CHAPTER 38. Dusk. CHAPTER 39. First Night-Watch. CHAPTER 40. Midnight, Forecastle. CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick. CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of the Whale. CHAPTER 43. Hark! CHAPTER 44. The Chart. CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit. CHAPTER 46. Surmises. CHAPTER 47. The Mat-Maker. CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering. CHAPTER 49. The Hyena. CHAPTER 50. Ahab’s Boat and Crew. Fedallah. CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout. CHAPTER 52. The Albatross. CHAPTER 53. The Gam. CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho’s Story. CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales. CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True Pictures of Whaling Scenes. CHAPTER 57. Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Stars. CHAPTER 58. Brit. CHAPTER 59. Squid. CHAPTER 60. The Line. CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale. CHAPTER 62. The Dart. CHAPTER 63. The Crotch. CHAPTER 64. 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