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