Moby‐Dick

Other by Herman Melville read by William Hootkins

Released July 2005

Tracklist

  • CD 1
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    Chapter 1: Loomings
    4:41
  • 2
    But here is an artist.
    5:37
  • 3
    What of it, if some old hunks of a sea‐captain…
    6:16
  • 4
    Chapter 2: The Carpet‐Bag
    5:42
  • 5
    Moving on, I at last came to a dim sort…
    4:27
  • 6
    Chapter 3: The Spouter‐Inn
    4:39
  • 7
    Crossing this dusky entry…
    5:08
  • 8
    Presently a rioting noise was heard without.
    5:50
  • 9
    I now took the measure of the bench…
    6:06
  • 10
    This account cleared up the otherwise…
    4:55
  • 11
    Whether that mattress was stuffed…
    6:42
  • 12
    I now screwed my eyes hard…
    5:12
  • 13
    Chapter 4: The Counterpane
    4:26
  • 14
    Now take away the awful fear…
    6:18
  • 15
    Chapter 5: Breakfast
    2:12
  • CD 2
  • 1
    They say that men who have seen the world…
    3:01
  • 2
    Chapter 6: The Street
    6:03
  • 3
    Chapter 7: The Chapel
    6:38
  • 4
    Chapter 8: The Pulpit
    6:27
  • 5
    Chapter 9: The Sermon
    4:34
  • 6
    ‘With this sin of disobedience in him…’
    4:59
  • 7
    ‘Now Jonah’s Captain shipmates…’
    5:55
  • 8
    ‘Terrors upon terrors run shouting through his soul.’
    4:40
  • 9
    But again he leaned over towards the people…
    6:32
  • 10
    Chapter 10: A Bosom Friend
    4:38
  • 11
    As I sat there in that now lonely room…
    5:48
  • 12
    Chapter 11: Nightgown
    4:32
  • 13
    Chapter 12: Biographical
    5:48
  • 14
    Chapter 13: Wheelbarrow
    4:15
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    At last, passage paid and luggage safe…
    4:59
  • CD 3
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    The schooner was run into the wind…
    1:42
  • 2
    Chapter 14: Nantucket
    5:22
  • 3
    Chapter 15: Chowder
    4:06
  • 4
    However, a warm savory steam from the kitchen…
    3:40
  • 5
    Chapter 16: The Ship
    6:22
  • 6
    Now when I looked about the quarter‐deck…
    6:38
  • 7
    For a moment I stood a little puzzled…
    6:41
  • 8
    Now, Bildad, I am sorry to say…
    4:54
  • 9
    But one thing nevertheless…
    6:37
  • 10
    But I had not proceeded far…
    5:13
  • 11
    Chapter 17: The Ramadan
    5:35
  • 12
    With a prodigious noise the door flew open…
    4:03
  • 13
    Now as I before hinted, I have no objection…
    4:02
  • 14
    Chapter 18: His Mark
    4:41
  • 15
    So down we went into the cabin…
    4:20
  • 16
    Chapter 19: The Prophet
    4:59
  • CD 4
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    ‘Look here. Friend,’ said I…
    2:34
  • 2
    Chapter 20: All Astir
    5:31
  • 3
    Chapter 21: Going Aboard
    7:16
  • 4
    Chapter 22: Merry Christmas
    4:52
  • 5
    At last the anchor was up…
    5:31
  • 6
    Chapter 23: The Lee Shore
    2:56
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    Chapter 24: The Advocate
    6:30
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    Until the whale fishery rounded Cape Horn…
    5:30
  • 9
    Chapter 25: Postscript
    2:09
  • 10
    Chapter 26: Knights and Squires
    4:26
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    With memories like these in him…
    4:17
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    Chapter 27: Knights and Squires
    5:55
  • 13
    First of all was Queequeg…
    5:02
  • 14
    Chapter 28: Ahab
    5:59
  • 15
    So powerfully did the whole grim aspect…
    3:56
  • 16
    Chapter 29: Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb
    5:04
  • CD 5
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    ‘I was never served so before…’
    3:11
  • 2
    Chapter 30: The Pipe
    2:08
  • 3
    Chapter 31: Queen Mab
    5:10
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    Chapter 32: Cetology
    4:56
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    Now the various species of whales need…
    6:06
  • 6
    Book 1 (Folio) Chapter 1: (Sperm Whale)
    6:40
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    In connection with this appellative…
    4:18
  • 8
    Octavoes
    7:24
  • 9
    Duodecimoes
    6:27
  • 10
    Chapter 33: The Specksynder
    7:26
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    Chapter 34: The Cabin‐Table
    5:38
  • 12
    What a relief it was to choking Stubb…
    5:40
  • 13
    It was a sight to see Queequeg seated…
    4:23
  • 14
    Chapter 35: The Mast‐Head
    4:22
  • 15
    It may seem unwarrantable to couple in any respect…
    5:32
  • CD 6
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    In shape, the Sleets crows‐nest…
    3:35
  • 2
    Let me make a clean breast of it here…
    4:51
  • 3
    Chapter 36: The Quarter‐Deck
    4:59
  • 4
    Receiving the top‐maul from Starbuck…
    5:58
  • 5
    ‘Hark ye yet again – the little lower layer…’
    5:11
  • 6
    Receiving the brimming pewter…
    5:47
  • 7
    Chapter 37: Sunset
    5:04
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    Chapter 38: Dusk
    3:17
  • 9
    Chapter 39: First Night Watch
    2:23
  • 10
    Chapter 40: Midnight, Forecastle
    5:33
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    They cease dancing and gather in clusters.
    7:50
  • 12
    Chapter 41: Moby‐Dick
    6:15
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    But there were still other and more vital…
    7:00
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    But even stripped of these supernatural surmisings…
    5:48
  • 15
    It is not probable that this monomania…
    5:14
  • CD 7
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    Now, in his heart, Ahab had some glimpse…
    4:54
  • 2
    Chapter 42: The Whiteness of The Whale
    6:31
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    Bethink thee of the albatross…
    5:17
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    But there are other instances…
    4:27
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    Or what is there apart from the traditions…
    5:23
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    But thou sayest, methinks this white‐lead chapter…
    5:17
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    Chapter 43: Hark!
    2:09
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    Chapter 44: The Chart
    5:14
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    There was a circumstance which at first sight…
    4:15
  • 10
    But granting all this…
    4:44
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    Chapter 45: The Affidavit
    6:24
  • 12
    I do not know where I can find a better place…
    4:46
  • 13
    The following are extracts from Chace’s narrative.
    6:07
  • 14
    In that up and down manly book…
    6:10
  • 15
    Chapter 46: Surmises
    7:26
  • CD 8
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    Chapter 47: The Mat‐Maker
    6:38
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    Chapter 48: The First Lowering
    6:30
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    In obedience to a sign from Ahab…
    7:35
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    Meanwhile Stubb, betrayed on such far‐gazing…
    4:30
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    Meanwhile, all the boats tore on.
    7:33
  • 6
    Chapter 49: The Hyena
    5:42
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    Chapter 50: Ahab’s Boat and Crew. Fedallah
    6:56
  • 8
    Chapter 51: The Spirit‐Spout
    5:52
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    But, at last, when turning to the eastward…
    4:58
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    Chapter 52: The Albatross
    5:09
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    Chapter 53: The Gam
    5:50
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    But look at the godly, honest, unostentatious…
    5:30
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    Chapter 54: The Town‐Ho’s Story
    5:13
  • CD 9
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    ‘Lakeman! Buffalo!…’
    4:04
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    ‘It was not more than a day or two…’
    5:22
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    ‘Quitting the pump at last…’
    5:58
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    ‘Ere the cry could go aft…’
    5:39
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    ‘I left off, gentlemen, where the Lakeman…’
    5:24
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    ‘At sunrise the Captain went forward…’
    4:45
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    ‘At sunrise he summoned all hands…’
    5:23
  • 8
    ‘During the night, Radney had an unseamanlike way…’
    7:26
  • 9
    ‘In good time, the Town‐Ho reached her port…’
    6:33
  • 10
    Chapter 55: Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales
    5:25
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    In old Harris’s collection of voyages…
    4:29
  • 12
    As for the sign‐painters’ whales seen in the streets…
    4:45
  • 13
    Chapter 56: Of the Less Erroneous Pictures…
    4:51
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    Who Garnery the painter is, or was, I know not.
    4:30
  • 15
    Chapter 57: Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood…
    4:05
  • CD 10
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    At some old gable‐roofed country houses…
    3:01
  • 2
    Chapter 58: Brit
    7:36
  • 3
    Chapter 59: Squid
    7:01
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    Chapter 60: The Line
    4:40
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    Before lowering the boat for the chase…
    4:53
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    Chapter 61: Stubb Kills a Whale
    5:44
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    ‘Start her, start her, my men!’
    7:54
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    Chapter 62: The Dart
    3:46
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    Chapter 63: The Crotch
    3:28
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    Chapter 64: Stubb’s Supper
    3:55
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    If moody Ahab was now all quiescence…
    4:29
  • 12
    But, as yet, Stubb heeded not the mumblings…
    6:02
  • 13
    Upon this, Fleece, holding both hands over the fishy mob…
    6:00
  • 14
    Chapter 65: The Whale as a Dish
    6:43
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    Chapter 66: The Shark Massacre
    4:06
  • CD 11
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    Chapter 67: Cutting In
    4:54
  • 2
    Chapter 68: The Blanket
    5:26
  • 3
    A word or two more concerning this matter…
    3:06
  • 4
    Chapter 69: The Funeral
    3:21
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    Chapter 70: The Sphynx
    6:28
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    Chapter 71: The Jeroboam’s Story
    3:56
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    He had been originally nurtured…
    5:07
  • 8
    It seemed that the Jeroboam had not long left home…
    6:58
  • 9
    Chapter 72: The Monkey‐Rope
    5:17
  • 10
    I have hinted that I would often…
    6:32
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    Chapter 73: Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale
    4:08
  • 12
    While the two headsmen were engaged…
    7:20
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    The boats were then hailed…
    2:22
  • 14
    Chapter 74: The Sperm Whale’s Head – Contrasted View
    6:53
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    But the ear of the whale is full as curious as the eye.
    4:39
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    Chapter 75: The Right Whale’s Head – Contrasted View
    2:39
  • CD 12
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    A great pity, now…
    6:09
  • 2
    Chapter 76: The Battering‐Ram
    6:27
  • 3
    Chapter 77: The Great Heidelburgh Tun
    4:38
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    Chapter 78: Cistern and Buckets
    5:21
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    Almost in the same instant…
    5:44
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    Chapter 79: The Prairie
    7:06
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    Chapter 80: The Nut
    6:20
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    Chapter 81: The Pequod Meets The Virgin
    5:42
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    With one intent all the combined rival boats…
    5:23
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    Seeing now that but a very few moments more…
    6:01
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    ‘Stand by, men; he stirs,’ cried Starbuck…
    5:19
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    Soon, while the crews were awaiting the arrival…
    6:59
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    Chapter 82: The Honour and Glory of Whaling
    5:10
  • 14
    Whether to admit Hercules among us or not…
    2:59
  • CD 13
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    Chapter 83: Jonah Historically Regarded
    5:25
  • 2
    Chapter 84: Pitchpoling
    5:38
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    Chapter 85: The Fountain
    5:37
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    It has been said that the whale only breathes…
    4:24
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    Nor is it at all prudent for the hunter…
    3:50
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    Chapter 86: The Tail
    4:29
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    Five great motions are peculiar to it…
    4:01
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    Fifth: As in the ordinary floating posture…
    4:59
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    Chapter 87: The Grand Armada
    5:35
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    Now, as many Sperm Whales had been captured…
    6:00
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    But thoughts like these troubled very few…
    5:30
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    All whaleboats carry certain curious contrivances…
    5:27
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    But far beneath this wondrous world…
    4:47
  • 14
    Meanwhile, as we thus lay entranced…
    5:34
  • 15
    Chapter 88: Schools and Schoolmasters
    3:46
  • 16
    But supposing the invader of domestic bliss…
    4:07
  • CD 14
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    The Forty‐barrel‐bull schools…
    1:02
  • 2
    Chapter 89: Fast‐Fish and Loose‐Fish
    5:42
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    These pleadings and the counter pleadings…
    4:21
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    Chapter 90: Heads or Tails
    4:30
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    In a word the Whale was seized and sold…
    3:20
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    Chapter 91: The Pequod Meets the Rosebud
    5:59
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    Now in order to hold direct communication…
    5:06
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    By this time their destined victim appeared…
    5:46
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    Chapter 92: Ambergris
    6:49
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    Chapter 93: The Castaway
    5:34
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    So soon as he recovered himself…
    5:47
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    Chapter 94: The Squeeze of the Hand
    4:33
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    Now, while discoursing of sperm…
    4:39
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    Chapter 95: The Cassock
    3:37
  • 15
    Chapter 96: The Try‐Works
    6:59
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    So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm…
    5:36
  • CD 15
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    Chapter 97: The Lamp
    1:43
  • 2
    Chapter 98: Stowing Down and Clearing Up
    7:04
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    Chapter 99: The Doubloon
    5:50
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    ‘No fairy fingers can have pressed the gold…’
    6:22
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    ‘I see nothing here, but a round thing made of gold…’
    6:20
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    Chapter 100: Leg and Arm
    5:01
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    ‘It was the first time in my life…’
    7:16
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    ‘Yes, I may as well,’ said the surgeon coolly…
    5:53
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    Chapter 101: The Decanter
    6:08
  • 10
    But why was it, think ye, that the Samuel Enderby…
    6:09
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    Chapter 102: A Bower in the Arsacides
    6:53
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    Now, when with Royal Tranquo I visited…
    3:59
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    Chapter 103: Measurement of the Whale’s Skeleton
    6:09
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    Chapter 104: The Fossil Whale
    4:23
  • CD 16
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    Detached broken fossils…
    6:11
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    Chapter 105: Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish?
    4:51
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    But you must look at this matter in every light.
    6:03
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    Chapter 106: Ahab’s Leg
    6:37
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    Chapter 107: The Carpenter
    7:43
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    Chapter 108: Ahab and the Carpenter
    5:54
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    Look ye, carpenter, I dare say thou callest…
    5:37
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    Chapter 109: Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin
    6:28
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    Chapter 110: Queequeg in his Coffin
    4:51
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    Not a man of the crew gave him up…
    4:46
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    But ere this was done, Pip, who had been…
    5:59
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    Chapter 111: The Pacific
    3:33
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    Chapter 112: The Blacksmith
    7:23
  • CD 17
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    Chapter 113: The Forge
    4:19
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    This done, Perth was about to begin welding…
    4:34
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    Chapter 114: The Gilder
    5:27
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    Chapter 115: The Pequod Meets The Bachelor
    6:16
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    Chapter 116: The Dying Whale
    4:33
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    Chapter 117: The Whale Watch
    3:31
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    Chapter 118: The Quadrant
    6:38
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    Chapter 119: The Candles
    5:02
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    Now, as the lightning rod to a spire on shore…
    6:04
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    ‘Oh! thou clear spirit of clear fire…’
    6:45
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    Chapter 120: The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch
    1:20
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    Chapter 121: Midnight – The Forecastle Bulwarks
    4:17
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    Chapter 122: Midnight Aloft – Thunder and Lightning
    0:27
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    Chapter 123: The Musket
    3:30
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    ‘He would have shot me once…’
    5:39
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    Chapter 124: The Needle
    4:33
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    Meanwhile, whatever were his own secret thoughts…
    4:13
  • CD 18
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    Chapter 125: The Log and Line
    4:01
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    ‘I crush the quadrant, the thunder turns the needles…’
    4:45
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    Chapter 126: The Life‐Buoy
    4:26
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    The lost life‐buoy was now to be replaced…
    4:38
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    Chapter 127: The Deck
    5:34
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    Chapter 128: The Pequod Meets The Rachel
    5:13
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    Now, as it shortly turned out…
    4:27
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    Chapter 129: The Cabin
    4:58
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    Chapter 130: The Hat
    6:45
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    But when three or four days had slided by…
    5:18
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    Chapter 131: The Pequod Meets The Delight
    3:15
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    Chapter 132: The Symphony
    3:58
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    ‘Oh Starbuck! it is a mild, mild wind…’
    4:24
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    ‘Oh, my Captain! my Captain!’
    4:29
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    Chapter 133: The Chase – First Day
    6:50
  • CD 19
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    A gentle joyousness…
    5:44
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    And now, while both elastic gunwales were springing…
    7:09
  • 3
    It is often the case that when a boat is stove…
    5:50
  • 4
    Chapter 134: The Chase – Second Day
    6:26
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    The rigging lived.
    6:42
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    While the two crews were yet circling in the waters…
    4:49
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    The old man’s hinted thought was true…
    5:53
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    Chapter 135: The Chase – Third Day
    5:54
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    A whole hour now passed…
    5:15
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    Yet the voice spake true…
    5:50
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    The harpoon dropped from his hand.
    5:38
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    Almost simultaneously, with a mighty volition…
    5:34
  • 13
    Diving beneath the settling ship…
    5:31
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    Epilogue
    2:25

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