Moby Dick, or the Whale

Author(s)

• Herman Melville

Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Captain Ahab of the book’s eponymous white whale. But interspersed in that story are digressions, paradoxes, philosophical riffs on whaling and life, and a display of techniques so advanced for its time that some have referred to the 1851 Moby Dick as the first “modern” novel. (Summary by Stewart Wills)

1. Chapter 000: Etymology and Extracts
2. Chapter 001-002
3. Chapter 003
4. Chapter 004-007
5. Chapter 008-009
6. Chapter 010-012
7. Chapter 013-015
8. Chapter 016
9. Chapter 017-021
10. Chapter 022-025
11. Chapter 026-027
12. Chapter 028-031
13. Chapter 032
14. Chapter 033-035
15. Chapter 036-040
16. Chapter 041
17. Chapter 042-044
18. Chapter 045-047
19. Chapter 048-050
20. Chapter 051-053
21. Chapter 054
22. Chapter 055-058
23. Chapter 059-063
24. Chapter 064-067
25. Chapter 068-071
26. Chapter 072-073
27. Chapter 074-077
28. Chapter 078-080
29. Chapter 081-082
30. Chapter 083-086
31. Chapter 087-088
32. Chapter 089-091
33. Chapter 092-096
34. Chapter 097-100
35. Chapter 101-104
36. Chapter 105-108
37. Chapter 109-113
38. Chapter 114-118
39. Chapter 119-123
40. Chapter 124-127
41. Chapter 128-132
42. Chapter 133
43. Chapter 134
44. Chapter 135 and Epilogue