Herman Melville: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick (LOA #9)

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Library of America, 15. apr. 1983 - 1436 sider

Well over a century after its publication, Moby-Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic. It is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopedia of whaling lore and legend, Moby-Dick is a haunting, mesmerizing, and important social commentary populated with several of the most unforgettable and enduring characters in literature. Written with wonderfully redemptive humor, Moby-Dick is a profound and timeless inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.

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How Wellingborough Redburns Taste for the
7
CHAPTER 2 Redburns Departure from Home
15
How He Disposed of His FowlingPiece
25
He Is Initiated in the Business of Cleaning
35
He Is Put into the Larboard Watch Gets Sea
46
The Sailors Becoming a Little Social Redburn
53
CHAPTER 10 He Is Very Much Frightened the Sailors Abuse
59
He Gives Some Account of One of His Shipmates
66
The Hospital in a Manofwar
693
Dismal Times in the Mess
700
The Last Stitch
706
A Manofwar College
712
The Rebels brought to the Mast
730
Flogging through the Fleet
737
The Manning of Navies
745
ETYMOLOGY
780

He Has a Fine Day at Sea Begins to Like
74
The Melancholy State of His Wardrobe
85
At Dead of Night He Is Sent Up to Loose the MainSkysail
90
The Cook and Steward
93
He Endeavors to Improve His Mind and Tells of One Blunt and His DreamBook
98
A Narrow Escape
105
CHAPTER 20 In a Fog He Is Set to Work as a BellToller and Beholds a Herd of OceanElephants
108
A Whaleman and a ManofWarsMan
112
The Highlander Passes a Wreck
115
An Unaccountable CabinPassenger and a Mysterious Young Lady
119
He Begins to Hop About in the Rigging Like a Saint Jagos Monkey
127
CHAPTER 25 QuarterDeck Furniture
131
A Sailor a Jack of All Trades
133
He Gets a Peep at Ireland and at Last Arrives at Liverpool
137
He Goes to Supper at the Sign of the Baltimore Clipper
144
Redburn Deferentially Discourses Concerning the Prospects of Sailors
150
Redburn Grows Intolerably Flat and Stupid over Some Outlandish Old GuideBooks
155
With His Prosy Old GuideBook He Takes
165
The Docks
176
The Irrawaddy
187
The Old Church of St Nicholas and the Dead
196
The DockWall Beggars
205
Placards BrassJewelers TruckHorses
212
Redburn Roves About Hither and Thither
220
His Adventure with the Cross Old Gentleman
228
Redburn Introduces Master Harry Bolton to
237
CHAPTER 45 Harry Bolton Kidnaps Redburn and Carries
246
HomewardBound
260
A Living Corpse
267
Harry Bolton at
277
CHAPTER SI The Emigrants
284
Some Superior Old NailRod and PigTail
295
Under the Lee of the LongBoat Redburn
302
Almost a Famine
308
CHAPTER 59
320
Redburn and Harry Arm and Arm in Harbor
328
The Last That Was Ever Heard of Harry Bolton
337
CHAPTER 72 Herein are the good Ordinances of the Sea
665
Night and Day Gambling in a Manofwar
671
Sink Burn and Destroy
684
Loomings
795
The Carpet
801
CHAPTER 6
827
The Pulpit
834
CHAPTER IO A Bosom Friend
846
Biographical
852
Nantucket
860
The Ship
866
The Ramadan
880
CHAPTER 40
976
Moby Dick
983
The Affidavit
1009
CHAPTER 46 Surmises
1018
CHAPTER 48
1024
The Hyena
1035
CHAPTER SI The SpiritSpout
1041
CHAPTER 53
1047
Monstrous Pictures of Whales
1073
Of Whales in Paint in Teeth
1082
CHAPTER 59
1088
The Pequod meets the Virgin
1169
The Honor and Glory of Whaling
1180
The Tail
1194
Schools Schoolmasters
1212
Heads or Tails
1220
Ambergris
1230
A Squeeze of the Hand
1238
CHAPTER 123 The Musket
1340
The Log and Line
1348
Ahab and the Carpenter
1356
CHAPTER 129
1363
The Pequod meets the Delight
1370
The Chase First
1377
CHAPTER 134
1387
The Chase Third
1396
EPILOGUE
1408
Chronology
1409
Notes
1423
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Herman Melville (1819-1891) sailed as an ordinary seaman in the Pacific as a young man, turning these experiences into a series of romances that launched his literary career. By 1850 he was married, had acquired a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussetts, and was hard at work on his masterpiece Moby-Dick. Literary success soon faded, his complexity increasingly alienating readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a deputy inspector in the Custom House, and where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work, Billy Budd, Sailor, was left unfinished and unknown until its rediscovery and publication in 1924.

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