Moby‐Dick - Herman Melville read by William Hootkins

Moby‐Dick

Other by Herman Melville read by William Hootkins

Released July 2005

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CD 1
1
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
15
At last, passage paid and luggage safe…
4:59
CD 3
1
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
1
‘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
7
Chapter 24: The Advocate
6:30
8
Until the whale fishery rounded Cape Horn…
5:30
9
Chapter 25: Postscript
2:09
10
Chapter 26: Knights and Squires
4:26
11
With memories like these in him…
4:17
12
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
1
‘I was never served so before…’
3:11
2
Chapter 30: The Pipe
2:08
3
Chapter 31: Queen Mab
5:10
4
Chapter 32: Cetology
4:56
5
Now the various species of whales need…
6:06
6
Book 1 (Folio) Chapter 1: (Sperm Whale)
6:40
7
In connection with this appellative…
4:18
8
Octavoes
7:24
9
Duodecimoes
6:27
10
Chapter 33: The Specksynder
7:26
11
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
1
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
8
Chapter 38: Dusk
3:17
9
Chapter 39: First Night Watch
2:23
10
Chapter 40: Midnight, Forecastle
5:33
11
They cease dancing and gather in clusters.
7:50
12
Chapter 41: Moby‐Dick
6:15
13
But there were still other and more vital…
7:00
14
But even stripped of these supernatural surmisings…
5:48
15
It is not probable that this monomania…
5:14
CD 7
1
Now, in his heart, Ahab had some glimpse…
4:54
2
Chapter 42: The Whiteness of The Whale
6:31
3
Bethink thee of the albatross…
5:17
4
But there are other instances…
4:27
5
Or what is there apart from the traditions…
5:23
6
But thou sayest, methinks this white‐lead chapter…
5:17
7
Chapter 43: Hark!
2:09
8
Chapter 44: The Chart
5:14
9
There was a circumstance which at first sight…
4:15
10
But granting all this…
4:44
11
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
1
Chapter 47: The Mat‐Maker
6:38
2
Chapter 48: The First Lowering
6:30
3
In obedience to a sign from Ahab…
7:35
4
Meanwhile Stubb, betrayed on such far‐gazing…
4:30
5
Meanwhile, all the boats tore on.
7:33
6
Chapter 49: The Hyena
5:42
7
Chapter 50: Ahab’s Boat and Crew. Fedallah
6:56
8
Chapter 51: The Spirit‐Spout
5:52
9
But, at last, when turning to the eastward…
4:58
10
Chapter 52: The Albatross
5:09
11
Chapter 53: The Gam
5:50
12
But look at the godly, honest, unostentatious…
5:30
13
Chapter 54: The Town‐Ho’s Story
5:13
CD 9
1
‘Lakeman! Buffalo!…’
4:04
2
‘It was not more than a day or two…’
5:22
3
‘Quitting the pump at last…’
5:58
4
‘Ere the cry could go aft…’
5:39
5
‘I left off, gentlemen, where the Lakeman…’
5:24
6
‘At sunrise the Captain went forward…’
4:45
7
‘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
11
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
14
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
1
At some old gable‐roofed country houses…
3:01
2
Chapter 58: Brit
7:36
3
Chapter 59: Squid
7:01
4
Chapter 60: The Line
4:40
5
Before lowering the boat for the chase…
4:53
6
Chapter 61: Stubb Kills a Whale
5:44
7
‘Start her, start her, my men!’
7:54
8
Chapter 62: The Dart
3:46
9
Chapter 63: The Crotch
3:28
10
Chapter 64: Stubb’s Supper
3:55
11
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
15
Chapter 66: The Shark Massacre
4:06
CD 11
1
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
5
Chapter 70: The Sphynx
6:28
6
Chapter 71: The Jeroboam’s Story
3:56
7
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
11
Chapter 73: Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale
4:08
12
While the two headsmen were engaged…
7:20
13
The boats were then hailed…
2:22
14
Chapter 74: The Sperm Whale’s Head – Contrasted View
6:53
15
But the ear of the whale is full as curious as the eye.
4:39
16
Chapter 75: The Right Whale’s Head – Contrasted View
2:39
CD 12
1
A great pity, now…
6:09
2
Chapter 76: The Battering‐Ram
6:27
3
Chapter 77: The Great Heidelburgh Tun
4:38
4
Chapter 78: Cistern and Buckets
5:21
5
Almost in the same instant…
5:44
6
Chapter 79: The Prairie
7:06
7
Chapter 80: The Nut
6:20
8
Chapter 81: The Pequod Meets The Virgin
5:42
9
With one intent all the combined rival boats…
5:23
10
Seeing now that but a very few moments more…
6:01
11
‘Stand by, men; he stirs,’ cried Starbuck…
5:19
12
Soon, while the crews were awaiting the arrival…
6:59
13
Chapter 82: The Honour and Glory of Whaling
5:10
14
Whether to admit Hercules among us or not…
2:59
CD 13
1
Chapter 83: Jonah Historically Regarded
5:25
2
Chapter 84: Pitchpoling
5:38
3
Chapter 85: The Fountain
5:37
4
It has been said that the whale only breathes…
4:24
5
Nor is it at all prudent for the hunter…
3:50
6
Chapter 86: The Tail
4:29
7
Five great motions are peculiar to it…
4:01
8
Fifth: As in the ordinary floating posture…
4:59
9
Chapter 87: The Grand Armada
5:35
10
Now, as many Sperm Whales had been captured…
6:00
11
But thoughts like these troubled very few…
5:30
12
All whaleboats carry certain curious contrivances…
5:27
13
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
1
The Forty‐barrel‐bull schools…
1:02
2
Chapter 89: Fast‐Fish and Loose‐Fish
5:42
3
These pleadings and the counter pleadings…
4:21
4
Chapter 90: Heads or Tails
4:30
5
In a word the Whale was seized and sold…
3:20
6
Chapter 91: The Pequod Meets the Rosebud
5:59
7
Now in order to hold direct communication…
5:06
8
By this time their destined victim appeared…
5:46
9
Chapter 92: Ambergris
6:49
10
Chapter 93: The Castaway
5:34
11
So soon as he recovered himself…
5:47
12
Chapter 94: The Squeeze of the Hand
4:33
13
Now, while discoursing of sperm…
4:39
14
Chapter 95: The Cassock
3:37
15
Chapter 96: The Try‐Works
6:59
16
So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm…
5:36
CD 15
1
Chapter 97: The Lamp
1:43
2
Chapter 98: Stowing Down and Clearing Up
7:04
3
Chapter 99: The Doubloon
5:50
4
‘No fairy fingers can have pressed the gold…’
6:22
5
‘I see nothing here, but a round thing made of gold…’
6:20
6
Chapter 100: Leg and Arm
5:01
7
‘It was the first time in my life…’
7:16
8
‘Yes, I may as well,’ said the surgeon coolly…
5:53
9
Chapter 101: The Decanter
6:08
10
But why was it, think ye, that the Samuel Enderby…
6:09
11
Chapter 102: A Bower in the Arsacides
6:53
12
Now, when with Royal Tranquo I visited…
3:59
13
Chapter 103: Measurement of the Whale’s Skeleton
6:09
14
Chapter 104: The Fossil Whale
4:23
CD 16
1
Detached broken fossils…
6:11
2
Chapter 105: Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish?
4:51
3
But you must look at this matter in every light.
6:03
4
Chapter 106: Ahab’s Leg
6:37
5
Chapter 107: The Carpenter
7:43
6
Chapter 108: Ahab and the Carpenter
5:54
7
Look ye, carpenter, I dare say thou callest…
5:37
8
Chapter 109: Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin
6:28
9
Chapter 110: Queequeg in his Coffin
4:51
10
Not a man of the crew gave him up…
4:46
11
But ere this was done, Pip, who had been…
5:59
12
Chapter 111: The Pacific
3:33
13
Chapter 112: The Blacksmith
7:23
CD 17
1
Chapter 113: The Forge
4:19
2
This done, Perth was about to begin welding…
4:34
3
Chapter 114: The Gilder
5:27
4
Chapter 115: The Pequod Meets The Bachelor
6:16
5
Chapter 116: The Dying Whale
4:33
6
Chapter 117: The Whale Watch
3:31
7
Chapter 118: The Quadrant
6:38
8
Chapter 119: The Candles
5:02
9
Now, as the lightning rod to a spire on shore…
6:04
10
‘Oh! thou clear spirit of clear fire…’
6:45
11
Chapter 120: The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch
1:20
12
Chapter 121: Midnight – The Forecastle Bulwarks
4:17
13
Chapter 122: Midnight Aloft – Thunder and Lightning
0:27
14
Chapter 123: The Musket
3:30
15
‘He would have shot me once…’
5:39
16
Chapter 124: The Needle
4:33
17
Meanwhile, whatever were his own secret thoughts…
4:13
CD 18
1
Chapter 125: The Log and Line
4:01
2
‘I crush the quadrant, the thunder turns the needles…’
4:45
3
Chapter 126: The Life‐Buoy
4:26
4
The lost life‐buoy was now to be replaced…
4:38
5
Chapter 127: The Deck
5:34
6
Chapter 128: The Pequod Meets The Rachel
5:13
7
Now, as it shortly turned out…
4:27
8
Chapter 129: The Cabin
4:58
9
Chapter 130: The Hat
6:45
10
But when three or four days had slided by…
5:18
11
Chapter 131: The Pequod Meets The Delight
3:15
12
Chapter 132: The Symphony
3:58
13
‘Oh Starbuck! it is a mild, mild wind…’
4:24
14
‘Oh, my Captain! my Captain!’
4:29
15
Chapter 133: The Chase – First Day
6:50
CD 19
1
A gentle joyousness…
5:44
2
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
5
The rigging lived.
6:42
6
While the two crews were yet circling in the waters…
4:49
7
The old man’s hinted thought was true…
5:53
8
Chapter 135: The Chase – Third Day
5:54
9
A whole hour now passed…
5:15
10
Yet the voice spake true…
5:50
11
The harpoon dropped from his hand.
5:38
12
Almost simultaneously, with a mighty volition…
5:34
13
Diving beneath the settling ship…
5:31
14
Epilogue
2:25

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Moby‐Dick
19x CD
July 2005