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