Herman Melville - Moby Dick, or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition (Melville)

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title	:	Moby Dick : Or, The Whale Writings of Herman Melville ; 6
author	:	Melville, Herman.; Hayford, Harrison.; Tanselle, G. Thomas; Parker, Hershel.
publisher	:	Northwestern University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0810102692
print isbn13	:	9780810102699
ebook isbn13	:	9780585382944
language	:	English
subject	Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)--Fiction, Sea stories--Fiction, Adventure fiction.
publication date	:	1988
lcc	:	PS2380.F68 1988eb
ddc	:	813/.3
subject	:	Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)--Fiction, Sea stories--Fiction, Adventure fiction.

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THE WRITINGS OF HERMAN MELVILLE

The Northwestern-Newberry Edition

VOLUME SIX

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EDITORS
HARRISON HAYFORD, General Editor
HERSHEL PARKER, Associate General Editor
G. THOMAS TANSELLE, Bibliographical Editor

EDITORIAL COORDINATOR
ALMA A. MACDOUGALL

ASSISTANT EDITOR
LYNN HORTH

ASSOCIATES
RICHARD COLLES JOHNSON, Bibliographical Associate
BRIAN HIGGINS, Editorial Associate
R. D. MADISON, Editorial Associate
ROBERT C. RYAN, Manuscript Associate
DONALD YANNELLA, Manuscript Associate

ADVISORY BOARD
JOHN HURT FISHER For the Modem Language Association of America
WILLIAM M. GIBSON For the Modern Language Association of America
LEON HOWARD For the Modern Language Association of America
WILLARD THORP For the Modern Language Association of America
MOODY E. PRIOR For Northwestern University
LAWRENCE W. TOWNER For The Newberry Library

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Moby-Dick

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This volume edited,
with Historical Note, by
HARRISON HAYFORD
HERSHEL PARKER
G. THOMAS TANSELLE

Editorial Coordinator
ALMA A. MACDOUGALL

Assistant Editor
LYNN HORTH

Associates
RICHARD COLLES JOHNSON
BRIAN HIGGINS
ROBERT C. RYAN

Contributing Scholars
JOEL MYERSON
MARY K. BERCAW
MARK NIEMEYER

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Moby-Dick

or

The Whale

HERMAN MELVILLE

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS
and
THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY
Evanston and Chicago
1988

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PUBLICATION OF this edition of THE WRITINGS OF HERMAN MELVILLE has been made possible through the financial support of Northwestern University and its Research Committee and The Newberry Library. The research necessary to establish the text was undertaken under the Cooperative Research Program of the Office of Education. Northwestern University Press produced and published this edition and reserves all rights.

Copyright 1988 by Northwestern University Press
and the Newberry Library

Second paperback printing, 1994
Third paperback printing, 1997
Fourth paperback printing, 2000

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER 76-129499

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cloth Edition, ISBN 0-8101-0268-4
Paper Edition, ISBN 0-8101-0269-2

Textual change in this printing: 383.39 chased to

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IN TOKEN
OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS,
This Book is Inscribed
TO
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

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Etymology	xv
Extracts	xvii
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

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Chapter 17 The Ramadan81Chapter 18 His Mark87Chapter 19 The Prophet91Chapter 20 All Astir95Chapter 21 Going Aboard98Chapter 22 Merry Christmas102Chapter 23 The Lee Shore106Chapter 24 The Advocate108Chapter 25 Postscript113Chapter 26 Knights and Squires115Chapter 27 Knights and Squires118Chapter 28 Ahab122Chapter 29 Enter Ahab; to him, Stubb126Chapter 30 The Pipe129Chapter 31 Queen Mab131Chapter 32 Cetology134Chapter 33 The Specksynder146Chapter 34 The Cabin Table149Chapter 35 The Mast-Head154Chapter 36 The Quarter-Deck Ahab and all160Chapter 37 Sunset167Chapter 38 Dusk169Chapter 39 First Night-Watch171Chapter 40 ForecastleMidnight173Chapter 41 Moby Dick179Chapter 42 The Whiteness of the Whale188Chapter 43 Hark!196Chapter 44 The Chart198Chapter 45 The Affidavit203Chapter 46 Surmises211Chapter 47 The Mat-Maker214Chapter 48 The First Lowering217Chapter 49 The Hyena226Chapter 50 Ahabs Boat and CrewFedallah229

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Chapter 51 The Spirit-Spout232Chapter 52 The Pequod meets the Albatross236Chapter 53 The Gam238Chapter 54 The Town Hos Story242Chapter 55 Monstrous Pictures of Whales260Chapter 56 Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales265Chapter 57 Of Whales in Paint, in Teeth, &c.269Chapter 58 Brit272Chapter 59 Squid275Chapter 60 The Line278Chapter 61 Stubb kills a Whale282Chapter 62 The Dart287Chapter 63 The Crotch289Chapter 64 Stubb s Supper291Chapter 65 The Whale as a Dish298Chapter 66 The Shark Massacre301Chapter 67 Cutting In303Chapter 68 The Blanket305Chapter 69 The Funeral308Chapter 70 The Sphynx310Chapter 71 The Pequod meets the Jeroboam Her Story313Chapter 72 The Monkey-rope319Chapter 73 Stubb & Flask kill a Right Whale323Chapter 74 The Sperm Whales Head329Chapter 75 The Right Whales Head333Chapter 76 The Battering Ram336Chapter 77 The Great Heidelburgh Tun339Chapter 78 Cistern and Buckets341Chapter 79 The Prairie345Chapter 80 The Nut348Chapter 81 The Pequod meets the Virgin351Chapter 82 The Honor and Glory of Whaling361Chapter 83 Jonah Historically Regarded364Chapter 84 Pitchpoling367

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Chapter 85 The Fountain370Chapter 86 The Tail375Chapter 87 The Grand Armada380Chapter 88 Schools & Schoolmasters391Chapter 89 Fast Fish and Loose Fish395Chapter 90 Heads or Tails399Chapter 91 The Pequod meets the Rose Bud402Chapter 92 Ambergris408Chapter 93 The Castaway411Chapter 94 A Squeeze of the Hand415Chapter 95 The Cassock419Chapter 96 The Try-Works421Chapter 97 The Lamp426Chapter 98 Stowing Down & Clearing Up427Chapter 99 The Doubloon430Chapter 100 The Pequod meets the Samuel Enderby of London436Chapter 101 TheDecanter443Chapter 102 A Bower in the Arsacides448Chapter 103. Measurement of the Whales Skeleton452Chapter 104 The Fossil Whale455Chapter 105 Does the Whale Diminish?459Chapter 106 Ahabs Leg463Chapter 107 The Carpenter466Chapter 108 The Deck Ahab and the Carpenter469Chapter 109 The Cabin Ahab and Starbuck473Chapter 110 Queequeg in his Coffin476Chapter 111 The Pacific482Chapter 112 The Blacksmith484Chapter 113 The Forge487Chapter 114 The Gilder491Chapter 115 The Pequod meets the Bachelor493Chapter 116 The Dying Whale496Chapter 117 The Whale-Watch498Chapter 118 The Quadrant500Next page