Moby Dick / Herman Melville ; edited with an introduction and notes by Tony Tanner.

Show other versions (34)

A classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale, who defied capture.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Main Author: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Tanner, Tony
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Series:Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Subjects:
Ahab, > Captain (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Whaling > Fiction.
Whales > Fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Epic poetry.
Sea fiction.
Allegories.
Genre:
Fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Epic poetry.
Sea fiction.
Allegories.
Online Access:
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information (Bibliographic record display) (EBSCO)
Read this eBook – MSU authorized users <br /> MSU single-user access only (EBSCO)
Local Note:
MSU: License agreement restricts access to one user at a time.
Physical Description:liv, 602 pages ; 20 cm.
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Loomings
  • The Carpet-Bag
  • The Spouter-Inn
  • The Counterpane
  • Breakfast
  • The Street
  • The Chapel
  • The Pulpit
  • The Sermon
  • A Bosom Friend
  • Nightgown
  • Biographical
  • Wheelbarrow
  • Nantucket
  • Chowder
  • The Ship
  • The Ramadan
  • His Mark
  • The Prophet
  • All Astir
  • Going Aboard
  • Merry Christmas
  • The Lee Shore
  • The Advocate
  • Knights and Squires
  • Knights and Squires
  • Ahab
  • Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb
  • The Pipe
  • Queen Mab
  • Cetology
  • The Specksynder
  • The Cabin-Table
  • The Mast-Head
  • The Quarter-Deck
  • Sunset
  • Dusk
  • First Night-Watch
  • Midnight, Forecastle
  • Moby Dick
  • The Whiteness of the Whale
  • Hark!
  • The Chart
  • The Affidavit
  • Surmises
  • The Mat-Maker
  • The First Lowering
  • The Hyena
  • Ahab's Boat and Crew. Fedallah
  • The Spirit-Spout
  • The Albatross
  • The Gam
  • The Town-Ho's Story
  • Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales
  • Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True Pictures of Whaling Scenes
  • Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Stars
  • Brit
  • Squid
  • The Line
  • Stubb Kills a Whale
  • The Dart
  • The Crotch
  • Stubb's Supper
  • The Whale as a Dish
  • The Shark Massacre
  • Cutting In
  • The Blanket
  • The Funeral
  • The Sphynx
  • The Jeroboam's Story
  • The Monkey-Rope
  • Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk over Him
  • The Sperm Whale's Head--Contrasted View
  • The Right Whale's Head--Contrasted View
  • The Battering-Ram.