99 The Doubloon
Chapter 102 A Bower in the Arsacides
Chapter 103 Measurement of The Whale’s Skeleton
Chapter 105 Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish? — Will He Perish?
Chapter 108 Ahab and the Carpenter
Chapter 109 Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin
Chapter 110 Queequeg in His Coffin
Chapter 115 The Pequod Meets The Bachelor
Chapter 120 The Deck Toward the End of the First Night Watch
Chapter 121 Midnight — The Forecastle Bulwarks
Chapter 122 Midnight Aloft.—Thunder and Lightning
Chapter 128 The Pequod Meets the Rachel
Chapter 131 The Pequod Meets The Delight
Chapter 133 The Chase — First Day
Chapter 134 The Chase — Second Day
Chapter 135 The Chase — Third Day
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
Published: 1851 Categorie(s): Fiction, Action & Adventure
ETYMOLOGY (Supplied by a Late Consumptive Usher to a Grammar School)
The pale Usher—threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality.
“While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by
what name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue leaving out, through ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh the signification of the word, you deliver that which is not true.”
—HACKLUYT
“WHALE… . Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal is named from roundness
or rolling; for in Dan. hvalt is arched or vaulted.”
—WEBSTER’S DICTIONARY
“WHALE… . It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger.
Wallen; A.S. Walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.”
—RICHARDSON’S DICTIONARY
KETOS,
