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136 chapters Moby-Dick Herman Melville 209k words · 1851

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville, 1851

All 135 chapters and the epilogue.

136 chapters · 208,569 words · about 87 hours at 40 wpm

Start with Loomings

Chapters

  1. 1 Loomings ~55 min
  2. 2 The Carpet-Bag ~36 min
  3. 3 The Spouter-Inn ~2.5 h
  4. 4 The Counterpane ~41 min
  5. 5 Breakfast ~18 min
  6. 6 The Street ~20 min
  7. 7 The Chapel ~24 min
  8. 8 The Pulpit ~24 min
  9. 9 The Sermon ~1.5 h
  10. 10 A Bosom Friend ~39 min
  11. 11 Nightgown ~18 min
  12. 12 Biographical ~22 min
  13. 13 Wheelbarrow ~42 min
  14. 14 Nantucket ~19 min
  15. 15 Chowder ~29 min
  16. 16 The Ship ~2.5 h
  17. 17 The Ramadan ~57 min
  18. 18 His Mark ~34 min
  19. 19 The Prophet ~30 min
  20. 20 All Astir ~23 min
  21. 21 Going Aboard ~27 min
  22. 22 Merry Christmas ~40 min
  23. 23 The Lee Shore ~9 min
  24. 24 The Advocate ~41 min
  25. 25 Postscript ~7 min
  26. 26 Knights and Squires ~30 min
  27. 27 Knights and Squires ~42 min
  28. 28 Ahab ~35 min
  29. 29 Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb ~30 min
  30. 30 The Pipe ~7 min
  31. 31 Queen Mab ~22 min
  32. 32 Cetology ~2 h
  33. 33 The Specksnyder ~24 min
  34. 34 The Cabin-Table ~55 min
  35. 35 The Mast-Head ~63 min
  36. 36 The Quarter-Deck ~69 min
  37. 37 Sunset ~12 min
  38. 38 Dusk ~10 min
  39. 39 First Night-Watch ~6 min
  40. 40 Midnight, Forecastle ~38 min
  41. 41 Moby Dick ~1.5 h
  42. 42 The Whiteness of the Whale ~1.5 h
  43. 43 Hark! ~7 min
  44. 44 The Chart ~51 min
  45. 45 The Affidavit ~88 min
  46. 46 Surmises ~25 min
  47. 47 The Mat-Maker ~23 min
  48. 48 The First Lowering ~1.5 h
  49. 49 The Hyena ~21 min
  50. 50 Ahab’s Boat and Crew. Fedallah ~25 min
  51. 51 The Spirit-Spout ~38 min
  52. 52 The Albatross ~18 min
  53. 53 The Gam ~40 min
  54. 54 The Town-Ho’s Story ~3.5 h
  55. 55 Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales ~47 min
  56. 56 Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True ~32 min
  57. 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in ~23 min
  58. 58 Brit ~25 min
  59. 59 Squid ~23 min
  60. 60 The Line ~36 min
  61. 61 Stubb Kills a Whale ~49 min
  62. 62 The Dart ~14 min
  63. 63 The Crotch ~12 min
  64. 64 Stubb’s Supper ~74 min
  65. 65 The Whale as a Dish ~25 min
  66. 66 The Shark Massacre ~16 min
  67. 67 Cutting In ~18 min
  68. 68 The Blanket ~30 min
  69. 69 The Funeral ~11 min
  70. 70 The Sphynx ~22 min
  71. 71 The Jeroboam’s Story ~56 min
  72. 72 The Monkey-Rope ~41 min
  73. 73 Stubb and Flask kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk ~54 min
  74. 74 The Sperm Whale’s Head—Contrasted View ~41 min
  75. 75 The Right Whale’s Head—Contrasted View ~30 min
  76. 76 The Battering-Ram ~22 min
  77. 77 The Great Heidelburgh Tun ~16 min
  78. 78 Cistern and Buckets ~41 min
  79. 79 The Prairie ~23 min
  80. 80 The Nut ~22 min
  81. 81 The Pequod Meets The Virgin ~2 h
  82. 82 The Honor and Glory of Whaling ~29 min
  83. 83 Jonah Historically Regarded ~19 min
  84. 84 Pitchpoling ~20 min
  85. 85 The Fountain ~51 min
  86. 86 The Tail ~46 min
  87. 87 The Grand Armada ~2 h
  88. 88 Schools and Schoolmasters ~30 min
  89. 89 Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish ~35 min
  90. 90 Heads or Tails ~26 min
  91. 91 The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud ~62 min
  92. 92 Ambergris ~24 min
  93. 93 The Castaway ~40 min
  94. 94 A Squeeze of the Hand ~31 min
  95. 95 The Cassock ~12 min
  96. 96 The Try-Works ~45 min
  97. 97 The Lamp ~6 min
  98. 98 Stowing Down and Clearing Up ~25 min
  99. 99 The Doubloon ~60 min
  100. 100 Leg and Arm ~67 min
  101. 101 The Decanter ~44 min
  102. 102 A Bower in the Arsacides ~38 min
  103. 103 Measurement of The Whale’s Skeleton ~23 min
  104. 104 The Fossil Whale ~35 min
  105. 105 Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish?—Will He Perish? ~39 min
  106. 106 Ahab’s Leg ~23 min
  107. 107 The Carpenter ~26 min
  108. 108 Ahab and the Carpenter ~39 min
  109. 109 Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin ~22 min
  110. 110 Queequeg in His Coffin ~56 min
  111. 111 The Pacific ~10 min
  112. 112 The Blacksmith ~23 min
  113. 113 The Forge ~30 min
  114. 114 The Gilder ~16 min
  115. 115 The Pequod Meets The Bachelor ~22 min
  116. 116 The Dying Whale ~13 min
  117. 117 The Whale Watch ~12 min
  118. 118 The Quadrant ~22 min
  119. 119 The Candles ~63 min
  120. 120 The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch ~4 min
  121. 121 Midnight.—The Forecastle Bulwarks ~15 min
  122. 122 Midnight Aloft.—Thunder and Lightning ~1 min
  123. 123 The Musket ~30 min
  124. 124 The Needle ~30 min
  125. 125 The Log and Line ~27 min
  126. 126 The Life-Buoy ~34 min
  127. 127 The Deck ~17 min
  128. 128 The Pequod Meets The Rachel ~34 min
  129. 129 The Cabin ~14 min
  130. 130 The Hat ~42 min
  131. 131 The Pequod Meets The Delight ~11 min
  132. 132 The Symphony ~40 min
  133. 133 The Chase—First Day ~88 min
  134. 134 The Chase—Second Day ~82 min
  135. 135 The Chase.—Third Day ~2 h
  136. 136 Epilogue ~7 min

Text: Project Gutenberg #2701. In the public domain.