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Moby-Dick, Melvilles masterpiece, is one of the great epics in all of literature. Ahabs idolatrous hunt for the white whale drives the narrative at a relentless pace, while Ishmaels meditations on whales and whaling, the sublime indifference of nature, and the grimy physical details of whale-oil extraction provide a reflective counterpoint. Sometimes read as a terrifying study of monomania or as a critical inquiry into the sinister effects of reducing life to symbols, Moby-Dick also offers colorful and comic glimpses of life aboard a whaling ship. This second volume of Melvilles complete prose in The Library of America also includes two other stories of the sea: Redburn, which relates a young mans initiation into the sailors life, and White-Jacket, a semi-autobiographical account of experiences in the U.S. Navy. All three are presented in the authoritative Northwestern-Newberry texts.
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Volume compilation, notes, and chronology Copyright 1983 by Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, N.Y. All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced commercially by offset-lithographic or equivalent copying devices without the permission of the publisher.
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Books USA Inc and in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Ltd.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 82-18677 For Cataloging in Publication Data, see end of Notes section. ISBN: 0-940450-09-7
Ninth Printing
The Library of America9
Manufactured in the United States of America
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G. THOMAS TANSELLE WROTE THE NOTES AND CHRONOLOGY AND SELECTED THE TEXTS FOR THIS VOLUME
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This volume prints the texts of Redburn, White-Jacket, and Moby-Dick from The Northwestern-Newberry Edition of The Writings of Herman Melville edited by Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle and published by Northwestern University Press and The Newberry Library, with the permission of the publishers.
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CONTENTS
Redburn: His First Voyage
1
White-Jacket; or The World in a Man-of-War
341
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
771
Chronology
1409
Note on the Texts
1414
Notes
1423
Page 1
REDBURN
His First Voyage
Being the Sailor-boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-Gentleman, in the Merchant Service
Page 2
TO MY YOUNGER BROTHER THOMAS MELVILLE Now a Sailor on a Voyage to China THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED
Page 3
Contents
Chapter 1 How Wellingborough Redburn's Taste for the Sea Was Born and Bred in Him
7
Chapter 2 Redburn's Departure from Home
15
Chapter 3 He Arrives in Town
20
Chapter 4 How He Disposed of His Fowling-Piece
25
Chapter 5 He Purchases His Sea-Wardrobe, and on a Dismal Rainy Day Picks Up His Board and Lodging along the Wharves
30
Chapter 6 He Is Initiated in the Business of Cleaning Out the Pig-Pen, and Slushing Down the Top-Mast
35
Chapter 7 He Gets to Sea, and Feels Very Bad
40
Chapter 8 He Is Put into the Larboard Watch; Gets Sea-Sick; and Relates Some Other of His Experiences
46
Chapter 9 The Sailors Becoming a Little Social, Redburn Converses with Them
53
Chapter 10 He Is Very Much Frightened; the Sailors Abuse Him; and He Becomes Miserable and Forlorn
59
Chapter 11 He Helps Wash the Decks, and Then Goes to Breakfast
62
Chapter 12 He Gives Some Account of One of His Shipmates Called Jackson
66
Chapter 13 He Has a Fine Day at Sea, Begins to Like It; but Changes His Mind
74
Chapter 14 He Contemplates Making a Social Call on the Captain in His Cabin
79
Page 4
Chapter 15 The Melancholy State of His Wardrobe
85
Chapter 16 At Dead of Night He Is Sent Up to Loose the Main-Skysail
90
Chapter 17 The Cook and Steward
93
Chapter 18 He Endeavors to Improve His Mind; and Tells of One Blunt and His Dream-Book
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