Moby‐Dick

Compilation by Herman Melville & William Hootkins

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Chapter 1: Loomings
    4:41
  2. 2.
    But here is an artist.
    5:37
  3. 3.
    What of it, if some old hunks of a sea‐captain…
    6:16
  4. 4.
    Chapter 2: The Carpet‐Bag
    5:42
  5. 5.
    Moving on, I at last came to a dim sort…
    4:27
  6. 6.
    Chapter 3: The Spouter‐Inn
    4:39
  7. 7.
    Crossing this dusky entry…
    5:08
  8. 8.
    Presently a rioting noise was heard without.
    5:50
  9. 9.
    I now took the measure of the bench…
    6:06
  10. 10.
    This account cleared up the otherwise…
    4:55
  11. 11.
    Whether that mattress was stuffed…
    6:42
  12. 12.
    I now screwed my eyes hard…
    5:12
  13. 13.
    Chapter 4: The Counterpane
    4:26
  14. 14.
    Now take away the awful fear…
    6:18
  15. 15.
    Chapter 5: Breakfast
    2:12

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    They say that men who have seen the world…
    3:01
  2. 3.
    Chapter 6: The Street
    6:03
  3. 4.
    Chapter 7: The Chapel
    6:38
  4. 5.
    Chapter 8: The Pulpit
    6:27
  5. 6.
    Chapter 9: The Sermon
    4:34
  6. 7.
    ‘With this sin of disobedience in him…’
    4:59
  7. 8.
    ‘Now Jonah’s Captain shipmates…’
    5:55
  8. 9.
    ‘Terrors upon terrors run shouting through his soul.’
    4:40
  9. 10.
    But again he leaned over towards the people…
    6:32
  10. 11.
    Chapter 10: A Bosom Friend
    4:38
  11. 12.
    As I sat there in that now lonely room…
    5:48
  12. 13.
    Chapter 11: Nightgown
    4:32
  13. 14.
    Chapter 12: Biographical
    5:48
  14. 15.
    Chapter 13: Wheelbarrow
    4:15
  15. 16.
    At last, passage paid and luggage safe…
    4:59

Disc 3

  1. 3.
    The schooner was run into the wind…
    1:42
  2. 4.
    Chapter 14: Nantucket
    5:22
  3. 5.
    Chapter 15: Chowder
    4:06
  4. 6.
    However, a warm savory steam from the kitchen…
    3:40
  5. 7.
    Chapter 16: The Ship
    6:22
  6. 8.
    Now when I looked about the quarter‐deck…
    6:38
  7. 9.
    For a moment I stood a little puzzled…
    6:41
  8. 10.
    Now, Bildad, I am sorry to say…
    4:54
  9. 11.
    But one thing nevertheless…
    6:37
  10. 12.
    But I had not proceeded far…
    5:13
  11. 13.
    Chapter 17: The Ramadan
    5:35
  12. 14.
    With a prodigious noise the door flew open…
    4:03
  13. 15.
    Now as I before hinted, I have no objection…
    4:02
  14. 16.
    Chapter 18: His Mark
    4:41
  15. 17.
    So down we went into the cabin…
    4:20
  16. 18.
    Chapter 19: The Prophet
    4:59

Disc 4

  1. 4.
    ‘Look here. Friend,’ said I…
    2:34
  2. 5.
    Chapter 20: All Astir
    5:31
  3. 6.
    Chapter 21: Going Aboard
    7:16
  4. 7.
    Chapter 22: Merry Christmas
    4:52
  5. 8.
    At last the anchor was up…
    5:31
  6. 9.
    Chapter 23: The Lee Shore
    2:56
  7. 10.
    Chapter 24: The Advocate
    6:30
  8. 11.
    Until the whale fishery rounded Cape Horn…
    5:30
  9. 12.
    Chapter 25: Postscript
    2:09
  10. 13.
    Chapter 26: Knights and Squires
    4:26
  11. 14.
    With memories like these in him…
    4:17
  12. 15.
    Chapter 27: Knights and Squires
    5:55
  13. 16.
    First of all was Queequeg…
    5:02
  14. 17.
    Chapter 28: Ahab
    5:59
  15. 18.
    So powerfully did the whole grim aspect…
    3:56
  16. 19.
    Chapter 29: Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb
    5:04

Disc 5

  1. 5.
    ‘I was never served so before…’
    3:11
  2. 6.
    Chapter 30: The Pipe
    2:08
  3. 7.
    Chapter 31: Queen Mab
    5:10
  4. 8.
    Chapter 32: Cetology
    4:56
  5. 9.
    Now the various species of whales need…
    6:06
  6. 10.
    Book 1 (Folio) Chapter 1: (Sperm Whale)
    6:40
  7. 11.
    In connection with this appellative…
    4:18
  8. 12.
    Octavoes
    7:24
  9. 13.
    Duodecimoes
    6:27
  10. 14.
    Chapter 33: The Specksynder
    7:26
  11. 15.
    Chapter 34: The Cabin‐Table
    5:38
  12. 16.
    What a relief it was to choking Stubb…
    5:40
  13. 17.
    It was a sight to see Queequeg seated…
    4:23
  14. 18.
    Chapter 35: The Mast‐Head
    4:22
  15. 19.
    It may seem unwarrantable to couple in any respect…
    5:32

Disc 6

  1. 6.
    In shape, the Sleets crows‐nest…
    3:35
  2. 7.
    Let me make a clean breast of it here…
    4:51
  3. 8.
    Chapter 36: The Quarter‐Deck
    4:59
  4. 9.
    Receiving the top‐maul from Starbuck…
    5:58
  5. 10.
    ‘Hark ye yet again – the little lower layer…’
    5:11
  6. 11.
    Receiving the brimming pewter…
    5:47
  7. 12.
    Chapter 37: Sunset
    5:04
  8. 13.
    Chapter 38: Dusk
    3:17
  9. 14.
    Chapter 39: First Night Watch
    2:23
  10. 15.
    Chapter 40: Midnight, Forecastle
    5:33
  11. 16.
    They cease dancing and gather in clusters.
    7:50
  12. 17.
    Chapter 41: Moby‐Dick
    6:15
  13. 18.
    But there were still other and more vital…
    7:00
  14. 19.
    But even stripped of these supernatural surmisings…
    5:48
  15. 20.
    It is not probable that this monomania…
    5:14

Disc 7

  1. 7.
    Now, in his heart, Ahab had some glimpse…
    4:54
  2. 8.
    Chapter 42: The Whiteness of The Whale
    6:31
  3. 9.
    Bethink thee of the albatross…
    5:17
  4. 10.
    But there are other instances…
    4:27
  5. 11.
    Or what is there apart from the traditions…
    5:23
  6. 12.
    But thou sayest, methinks this white‐lead chapter…
    5:17
  7. 13.
    Chapter 43: Hark!
    2:09
  8. 14.
    Chapter 44: The Chart
    5:14
  9. 15.
    There was a circumstance which at first sight…
    4:15
  10. 16.
    But granting all this…
    4:44
  11. 17.
    Chapter 45: The Affidavit
    6:24
  12. 18.
    I do not know where I can find a better place…
    4:46
  13. 19.
    The following are extracts from Chace’s narrative.
    6:07
  14. 20.
    In that up and down manly book…
    6:10
  15. 21.
    Chapter 46: Surmises
    7:26

Disc 8

  1. 8.
    Chapter 47: The Mat‐Maker
    6:38
  2. 9.
    Chapter 48: The First Lowering
    6:30
  3. 10.
    In obedience to a sign from Ahab…
    7:35
  4. 11.
    Meanwhile Stubb, betrayed on such far‐gazing…
    4:30
  5. 12.
    Meanwhile, all the boats tore on.
    7:33
  6. 13.
    Chapter 49: The Hyena
    5:42
  7. 14.
    Chapter 50: Ahab’s Boat and Crew. Fedallah
    6:56
  8. 15.
    Chapter 51: The Spirit‐Spout
    5:52
  9. 16.
    But, at last, when turning to the eastward…
    4:58
  10. 17.
    Chapter 52: The Albatross
    5:09
  11. 18.
    Chapter 53: The Gam
    5:50
  12. 19.
    But look at the godly, honest, unostentatious…
    5:30
  13. 20.
    Chapter 54: The Town‐Ho’s Story
    5:13

Disc 9

  1. 9.
    ‘Lakeman! Buffalo!…’
    4:04
  2. 10.
    ‘It was not more than a day or two…’
    5:22
  3. 11.
    ‘Quitting the pump at last…’
    5:58
  4. 12.
    ‘Ere the cry could go aft…’
    5:39
  5. 13.
    ‘I left off, gentlemen, where the Lakeman…’
    5:24
  6. 14.
    ‘At sunrise the Captain went forward…’
    4:45
  7. 15.
    ‘At sunrise he summoned all hands…’
    5:23
  8. 16.
    ‘During the night, Radney had an unseamanlike way…’
    7:26
  9. 17.
    ‘In good time, the Town‐Ho reached her port…’
    6:33
  10. 18.
    Chapter 55: Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales
    5:25
  11. 19.
    In old Harris’s collection of voyages…
    4:29
  12. 20.
    As for the sign‐painters’ whales seen in the streets…
    4:45
  13. 21.
    Chapter 56: Of the Less Erroneous Pictures…
    4:51
  14. 22.
    Who Garnery the painter is, or was, I know not.
    4:30
  15. 23.
    Chapter 57: Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood…
    4:05

Disc 10

  1. 10.
    At some old gable‐roofed country houses…
    3:01
  2. 11.
    Chapter 58: Brit
    7:36
  3. 12.
    Chapter 59: Squid
    7:01
  4. 13.
    Chapter 60: The Line
    4:40
  5. 14.
    Before lowering the boat for the chase…
    4:53
  6. 15.
    Chapter 61: Stubb Kills a Whale
    5:44
  7. 16.
    ‘Start her, start her, my men!’
    7:54
  8. 17.
    Chapter 62: The Dart
    3:46
  9. 18.
    Chapter 63: The Crotch
    3:28
  10. 19.
    Chapter 64: Stubb’s Supper
    3:55
  11. 20.
    If moody Ahab was now all quiescence…
    4:29
  12. 21.
    But, as yet, Stubb heeded not the mumblings…
    6:02
  13. 22.
    Upon this, Fleece, holding both hands over the fishy mob…
    6:00
  14. 23.
    Chapter 65: The Whale as a Dish
    6:43
  15. 24.
    Chapter 66: The Shark Massacre
    4:06

Disc 11

  1. 11.
    Chapter 67: Cutting In
    4:54
  2. 12.
    Chapter 68: The Blanket
    5:26
  3. 13.
    A word or two more concerning this matter…
    3:06
  4. 14.
    Chapter 69: The Funeral
    3:21
  5. 15.
    Chapter 70: The Sphynx
    6:28
  6. 16.
    Chapter 71: The Jeroboam’s Story
    3:56
  7. 17.
    He had been originally nurtured…
    5:07
  8. 18.
    It seemed that the Jeroboam had not long left home…
    6:58
  9. 19.
    Chapter 72: The Monkey‐Rope
    5:17
  10. 20.
    I have hinted that I would often…
    6:32
  11. 21.
    Chapter 73: Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale
    4:08
  12. 22.
    While the two headsmen were engaged…
    7:20
  13. 23.
    The boats were then hailed…
    2:22
  14. 24.
    Chapter 74: The Sperm Whale’s Head – Contrasted View
    6:53
  15. 25.
    But the ear of the whale is full as curious as the eye.
    4:39
  16. 26.
    Chapter 75: The Right Whale’s Head – Contrasted View
    2:39

Disc 12

  1. 12.
    A great pity, now…
    6:09
  2. 13.
    Chapter 76: The Battering‐Ram
    6:27
  3. 14.
    Chapter 77: The Great Heidelburgh Tun
    4:38
  4. 15.
    Chapter 78: Cistern and Buckets
    5:21
  5. 16.
    Almost in the same instant…
    5:44
  6. 17.
    Chapter 79: The Prairie
    7:06
  7. 18.
    Chapter 80: The Nut
    6:20
  8. 19.
    Chapter 81: The Pequod Meets The Virgin
    5:42
  9. 20.
    With one intent all the combined rival boats…
    5:23
  10. 21.
    Seeing now that but a very few moments more…
    6:01
  11. 22.
    ‘Stand by, men; he stirs,’ cried Starbuck…
    5:19
  12. 23.
    Soon, while the crews were awaiting the arrival…
    6:59
  13. 24.
    Chapter 82: The Honour and Glory of Whaling
    5:10
  14. 25.
    Whether to admit Hercules among us or not…
    2:59

Disc 13

  1. 13.
    Chapter 83: Jonah Historically Regarded
    5:25
  2. 14.
    Chapter 84: Pitchpoling
    5:38
  3. 15.
    Chapter 85: The Fountain
    5:37
  4. 16.
    It has been said that the whale only breathes…
    4:24
  5. 17.
    Nor is it at all prudent for the hunter…
    3:50
  6. 18.
    Chapter 86: The Tail
    4:29
  7. 19.
    Five great motions are peculiar to it…
    4:01
  8. 20.
    Fifth: As in the ordinary floating posture…
    4:59
  9. 21.
    Chapter 87: The Grand Armada
    5:35
  10. 22.
    Now, as many Sperm Whales had been captured…
    6:00
  11. 23.
    But thoughts like these troubled very few…
    5:30
  12. 24.
    All whaleboats carry certain curious contrivances…
    5:27
  13. 25.
    But far beneath this wondrous world…
    4:47
  14. 26.
    Meanwhile, as we thus lay entranced…
    5:34
  15. 27.
    Chapter 88: Schools and Schoolmasters
    3:46
  16. 28.
    But supposing the invader of domestic bliss…
    4:07

Disc 14

  1. 14.
    The Forty‐barrel‐bull schools…
    1:02
  2. 15.
    Chapter 89: Fast‐Fish and Loose‐Fish
    5:42
  3. 16.
    These pleadings and the counter pleadings…
    4:21
  4. 17.
    Chapter 90: Heads or Tails
    4:30
  5. 18.
    In a word the Whale was seized and sold…
    3:20
  6. 19.
    Chapter 91: The Pequod Meets the Rosebud
    5:59
  7. 20.
    Now in order to hold direct communication…
    5:06
  8. 21.
    By this time their destined victim appeared…
    5:46
  9. 22.
    Chapter 92: Ambergris
    6:49
  10. 23.
    Chapter 93: The Castaway
    5:34
  11. 24.
    So soon as he recovered himself…
    5:47
  12. 25.
    Chapter 94: The Squeeze of the Hand
    4:33
  13. 26.
    Now, while discoursing of sperm…
    4:39
  14. 27.
    Chapter 95: The Cassock
    3:37
  15. 28.
    Chapter 96: The Try‐Works
    6:59
  16. 29.
    So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm…
    5:36

Disc 15

  1. 15.
    Chapter 97: The Lamp
    1:43
  2. 16.
    Chapter 98: Stowing Down and Clearing Up
    7:04
  3. 17.
    Chapter 99: The Doubloon
    5:50
  4. 18.
    ‘No fairy fingers can have pressed the gold…’
    6:22
  5. 19.
    ‘I see nothing here, but a round thing made of gold…’
    6:20
  6. 20.
    Chapter 100: Leg and Arm
    5:01
  7. 21.
    ‘It was the first time in my life…’
    7:16
  8. 22.
    ‘Yes, I may as well,’ said the surgeon coolly…
    5:53
  9. 23.
    Chapter 101: The Decanter
    6:08
  10. 24.
    But why was it, think ye, that the Samuel Enderby…
    6:09
  11. 25.
    Chapter 102: A Bower in the Arsacides
    6:53
  12. 26.
    Now, when with Royal Tranquo I visited…
    3:59
  13. 27.
    Chapter 103: Measurement of the Whale’s Skeleton
    6:09
  14. 28.
    Chapter 104: The Fossil Whale
    4:23

Disc 16

  1. 16.
    Detached broken fossils…
    6:11
  2. 17.
    Chapter 105: Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish?
    4:51
  3. 18.
    But you must look at this matter in every light.
    6:03
  4. 19.
    Chapter 106: Ahab’s Leg
    6:37
  5. 20.
    Chapter 107: The Carpenter
    7:43
  6. 21.
    Chapter 108: Ahab and the Carpenter
    5:54
  7. 22.
    Look ye, carpenter, I dare say thou callest…
    5:37
  8. 23.
    Chapter 109: Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin
    6:28
  9. 24.
    Chapter 110: Queequeg in his Coffin
    4:51
  10. 25.
    Not a man of the crew gave him up…
    4:46
  11. 26.
    But ere this was done, Pip, who had been…
    5:59
  12. 27.
    Chapter 111: The Pacific
    3:33
  13. 28.
    Chapter 112: The Blacksmith
    7:23

Disc 17

  1. 17.
    Chapter 113: The Forge
    4:19
  2. 18.
    This done, Perth was about to begin welding…
    4:34
  3. 19.
    Chapter 114: The Gilder
    5:27
  4. 20.
    Chapter 115: The Pequod Meets The Bachelor
    6:16
  5. 21.
    Chapter 116: The Dying Whale
    4:33
  6. 22.
    Chapter 117: The Whale Watch
    3:31
  7. 23.
    Chapter 118: The Quadrant
    6:38
  8. 24.
    Chapter 119: The Candles
    5:02
  9. 25.
    Now, as the lightning rod to a spire on shore…
    6:04
  10. 26.
    ‘Oh! thou clear spirit of clear fire…’
    6:45
  11. 27.
    Chapter 120: The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch
    1:20
  12. 28.
    Chapter 121: Midnight – The Forecastle Bulwarks
    4:17
  13. 29.
    Chapter 122: Midnight Aloft – Thunder and Lightning
    0:27
  14. 30.
    Chapter 123: The Musket
    3:30
  15. 31.
    ‘He would have shot me once…’
    5:39
  16. 32.
    Chapter 124: The Needle
    4:33
  17. 33.
    Meanwhile, whatever were his own secret thoughts…
    4:13

Disc 18

  1. 18.
    Chapter 125: The Log and Line
    4:01
  2. 19.
    ‘I crush the quadrant, the thunder turns the needles…’
    4:45
  3. 20.
    Chapter 126: The Life‐Buoy
    4:26
  4. 21.
    The lost life‐buoy was now to be replaced…
    4:38
  5. 22.
    Chapter 127: The Deck
    5:34
  6. 23.
    Chapter 128: The Pequod Meets The Rachel
    5:13
  7. 24.
    Now, as it shortly turned out…
    4:27
  8. 25.
    Chapter 129: The Cabin
    4:58
  9. 26.
    Chapter 130: The Hat
    6:45
  10. 27.
    But when three or four days had slided by…
    5:18
  11. 28.
    Chapter 131: The Pequod Meets The Delight
    3:15
  12. 29.
    Chapter 132: The Symphony
    3:58
  13. 30.
    ‘Oh Starbuck! it is a mild, mild wind…’
    4:24
  14. 31.
    ‘Oh, my Captain! my Captain!’
    4:29
  15. 32.
    Chapter 133: The Chase – First Day
    6:50

Disc 19

  1. 19.
    A gentle joyousness…
    5:44
  2. 20.
    And now, while both elastic gunwales were springing…
    7:09
  3. 21.
    It is often the case that when a boat is stove…
    5:50
  4. 22.
    Chapter 134: The Chase – Second Day
    6:26
  5. 23.
    The rigging lived.
    6:42
  6. 24.
    While the two crews were yet circling in the waters…
    4:49
  7. 25.
    The old man’s hinted thought was true…
    5:53
  8. 26.
    Chapter 135: The Chase – Third Day
    5:54
  9. 27.
    A whole hour now passed…
    5:15
  10. 28.
    Yet the voice spake true…
    5:50
  11. 29.
    The harpoon dropped from his hand.
    5:38
  12. 30.
    Almost simultaneously, with a mighty volition…
    5:34
  13. 31.
    Diving beneath the settling ship…
    5:31
  14. 32.
    Epilogue
    2:25

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