Moby‐Dick
Other by Herman Melville read by William Hootkins
Released July 2005
Tracklist
- CD 1
- 1Chapter 1: Loomings4:41
- 2But here is an artist.5:37
- 3What of it, if some old hunks of a sea‐captain…6:16
- 4Chapter 2: The Carpet‐Bag5:42
- 5Moving on, I at last came to a dim sort…4:27
- 6Chapter 3: The Spouter‐Inn4:39
- 7Crossing this dusky entry…5:08
- 8Presently a rioting noise was heard without.5:50
- 9I now took the measure of the bench…6:06
- 10This account cleared up the otherwise…4:55
- 11Whether that mattress was stuffed…6:42
- 12I now screwed my eyes hard…5:12
- 13Chapter 4: The Counterpane4:26
- 14Now take away the awful fear…6:18
- 15Chapter 5: Breakfast2:12
- CD 2
- 1They say that men who have seen the world…3:01
- 2Chapter 6: The Street6:03
- 3Chapter 7: The Chapel6:38
- 4Chapter 8: The Pulpit6:27
- 5Chapter 9: The Sermon4:34
- 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
- 9But again he leaned over towards the people…6:32
- 10Chapter 10: A Bosom Friend4:38
- 11As I sat there in that now lonely room…5:48
- 12Chapter 11: Nightgown4:32
- 13Chapter 12: Biographical5:48
- 14Chapter 13: Wheelbarrow4:15
- 15At last, passage paid and luggage safe…4:59
- CD 3
- 1The schooner was run into the wind…1:42
- 2Chapter 14: Nantucket5:22
- 3Chapter 15: Chowder4:06
- 4However, a warm savory steam from the kitchen…3:40
- 5Chapter 16: The Ship6:22
- 6Now when I looked about the quarter‐deck…6:38
- 7For a moment I stood a little puzzled…6:41
- 8Now, Bildad, I am sorry to say…4:54
- 9But one thing nevertheless…6:37
- 10But I had not proceeded far…5:13
- 11Chapter 17: The Ramadan5:35
- 12With a prodigious noise the door flew open…4:03
- 13Now as I before hinted, I have no objection…4:02
- 14Chapter 18: His Mark4:41
- 15So down we went into the cabin…4:20
- 16Chapter 19: The Prophet4:59
- CD 4
- 1‘Look here. Friend,’ said I…2:34
- 2Chapter 20: All Astir5:31
- 3Chapter 21: Going Aboard7:16
- 4Chapter 22: Merry Christmas4:52
- 5At last the anchor was up…5:31
- 6Chapter 23: The Lee Shore2:56
- 7Chapter 24: The Advocate6:30
- 8Until the whale fishery rounded Cape Horn…5:30
- 9Chapter 25: Postscript2:09
- 10Chapter 26: Knights and Squires4:26
- 11With memories like these in him…4:17
- 12Chapter 27: Knights and Squires5:55
- 13First of all was Queequeg…5:02
- 14Chapter 28: Ahab5:59
- 15So powerfully did the whole grim aspect…3:56
- 16Chapter 29: Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb5:04
- CD 5
- 1‘I was never served so before…’3:11
- 2Chapter 30: The Pipe2:08
- 3Chapter 31: Queen Mab5:10
- 4Chapter 32: Cetology4:56
- 5Now the various species of whales need…6:06
- 6Book 1 (Folio) Chapter 1: (Sperm Whale)6:40
- 7In connection with this appellative…4:18
- 8Octavoes7:24
- 9Duodecimoes6:27
- 10Chapter 33: The Specksynder7:26
- 11Chapter 34: The Cabin‐Table5:38
- 12What a relief it was to choking Stubb…5:40
- 13It was a sight to see Queequeg seated…4:23
- 14Chapter 35: The Mast‐Head4:22
- 15It may seem unwarrantable to couple in any respect…5:32
- CD 6
- 1In shape, the Sleets crows‐nest…3:35
- 2Let me make a clean breast of it here…4:51
- 3Chapter 36: The Quarter‐Deck4:59
- 4Receiving the top‐maul from Starbuck…5:58
- 5‘Hark ye yet again – the little lower layer…’5:11
- 6Receiving the brimming pewter…5:47
- 7Chapter 37: Sunset5:04
- 8Chapter 38: Dusk3:17
- 9Chapter 39: First Night Watch2:23
- 10Chapter 40: Midnight, Forecastle5:33
- 11They cease dancing and gather in clusters.7:50
- 12Chapter 41: Moby‐Dick6:15
- 13But there were still other and more vital…7:00
- 14But even stripped of these supernatural surmisings…5:48
- 15It is not probable that this monomania…5:14
- CD 7
- 1Now, in his heart, Ahab had some glimpse…4:54
- 2Chapter 42: The Whiteness of The Whale6:31
- 3Bethink thee of the albatross…5:17
- 4But there are other instances…4:27
- 5Or what is there apart from the traditions…5:23
- 6But thou sayest, methinks this white‐lead chapter…5:17
- 7Chapter 43: Hark!2:09
- 8Chapter 44: The Chart5:14
- 9There was a circumstance which at first sight…4:15
- 10But granting all this…4:44
- 11Chapter 45: The Affidavit6:24
- 12I do not know where I can find a better place…4:46
- 13The following are extracts from Chace’s narrative.6:07
- 14In that up and down manly book…6:10
- 15Chapter 46: Surmises7:26
- CD 8
- 1Chapter 47: The Mat‐Maker6:38
- 2Chapter 48: The First Lowering6:30
- 3In obedience to a sign from Ahab…7:35
- 4Meanwhile Stubb, betrayed on such far‐gazing…4:30
- 5Meanwhile, all the boats tore on.7:33
- 6Chapter 49: The Hyena5:42
- 7Chapter 50: Ahab’s Boat and Crew. Fedallah6:56
- 8Chapter 51: The Spirit‐Spout5:52
- 9But, at last, when turning to the eastward…4:58
- 10Chapter 52: The Albatross5:09
- 11Chapter 53: The Gam5:50
- 12But look at the godly, honest, unostentatious…5:30
- 13Chapter 54: The Town‐Ho’s Story5:13
- 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
- 10Chapter 55: Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales5:25
- 11In old Harris’s collection of voyages…4:29
- 12As for the sign‐painters’ whales seen in the streets…4:45
- 13Chapter 56: Of the Less Erroneous Pictures…4:51
- 14Who Garnery the painter is, or was, I know not.4:30
- 15Chapter 57: Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood…4:05
- CD 10
- 1At some old gable‐roofed country houses…3:01
- 2Chapter 58: Brit7:36
- 3Chapter 59: Squid7:01
- 4Chapter 60: The Line4:40
- 5Before lowering the boat for the chase…4:53
- 6Chapter 61: Stubb Kills a Whale5:44
- 7‘Start her, start her, my men!’7:54
- 8Chapter 62: The Dart3:46
- 9Chapter 63: The Crotch3:28
- 10Chapter 64: Stubb’s Supper3:55
- 11If moody Ahab was now all quiescence…4:29
- 12But, as yet, Stubb heeded not the mumblings…6:02
- 13Upon this, Fleece, holding both hands over the fishy mob…6:00
- 14Chapter 65: The Whale as a Dish6:43
- 15Chapter 66: The Shark Massacre4:06
- CD 11
- 1Chapter 67: Cutting In4:54
- 2Chapter 68: The Blanket5:26
- 3A word or two more concerning this matter…3:06
- 4Chapter 69: The Funeral3:21
- 5Chapter 70: The Sphynx6:28
- 6Chapter 71: The Jeroboam’s Story3:56
- 7He had been originally nurtured…5:07
- 8It seemed that the Jeroboam had not long left home…6:58
- 9Chapter 72: The Monkey‐Rope5:17
- 10I have hinted that I would often…6:32
- 11Chapter 73: Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale4:08
- 12While the two headsmen were engaged…7:20
- 13The boats were then hailed…2:22
- 14Chapter 74: The Sperm Whale’s Head – Contrasted View6:53
- 15But the ear of the whale is full as curious as the eye.4:39
- 16Chapter 75: The Right Whale’s Head – Contrasted View2:39
- CD 12
- 1A great pity, now…6:09
- 2Chapter 76: The Battering‐Ram6:27
- 3Chapter 77: The Great Heidelburgh Tun4:38
- 4Chapter 78: Cistern and Buckets5:21
- 5Almost in the same instant…5:44
- 6Chapter 79: The Prairie7:06
- 7Chapter 80: The Nut6:20
- 8Chapter 81: The Pequod Meets The Virgin5:42
- 9With one intent all the combined rival boats…5:23
- 10Seeing now that but a very few moments more…6:01
- 11‘Stand by, men; he stirs,’ cried Starbuck…5:19
- 12Soon, while the crews were awaiting the arrival…6:59
- 13Chapter 82: The Honour and Glory of Whaling5:10
- 14Whether to admit Hercules among us or not…2:59
- CD 13
- 1Chapter 83: Jonah Historically Regarded5:25
- 2Chapter 84: Pitchpoling5:38
- 3Chapter 85: The Fountain5:37
- 4It has been said that the whale only breathes…4:24
- 5Nor is it at all prudent for the hunter…3:50
- 6Chapter 86: The Tail4:29
- 7Five great motions are peculiar to it…4:01
- 8Fifth: As in the ordinary floating posture…4:59
- 9Chapter 87: The Grand Armada5:35
- 10Now, as many Sperm Whales had been captured…6:00
- 11But thoughts like these troubled very few…5:30
- 12All whaleboats carry certain curious contrivances…5:27
- 13But far beneath this wondrous world…4:47
- 14Meanwhile, as we thus lay entranced…5:34
- 15Chapter 88: Schools and Schoolmasters3:46
- 16But supposing the invader of domestic bliss…4:07
- CD 14
- 1The Forty‐barrel‐bull schools…1:02
- 2Chapter 89: Fast‐Fish and Loose‐Fish5:42
- 3These pleadings and the counter pleadings…4:21
- 4Chapter 90: Heads or Tails4:30
- 5In a word the Whale was seized and sold…3:20
- 6Chapter 91: The Pequod Meets the Rosebud5:59
- 7Now in order to hold direct communication…5:06
- 8By this time their destined victim appeared…5:46
- 9Chapter 92: Ambergris6:49
- 10Chapter 93: The Castaway5:34
- 11So soon as he recovered himself…5:47
- 12Chapter 94: The Squeeze of the Hand4:33
- 13Now, while discoursing of sperm…4:39
- 14Chapter 95: The Cassock3:37
- 15Chapter 96: The Try‐Works6:59
- 16So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm…5:36
- CD 15
- 1Chapter 97: The Lamp1:43
- 2Chapter 98: Stowing Down and Clearing Up7:04
- 3Chapter 99: The Doubloon5:50
- 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
- 6Chapter 100: Leg and Arm5:01
- 7‘It was the first time in my life…’7:16
- 8‘Yes, I may as well,’ said the surgeon coolly…5:53
- 9Chapter 101: The Decanter6:08
- 10But why was it, think ye, that the Samuel Enderby…6:09
- 11Chapter 102: A Bower in the Arsacides6:53
- 12Now, when with Royal Tranquo I visited…3:59
- 13Chapter 103: Measurement of the Whale’s Skeleton6:09
- 14Chapter 104: The Fossil Whale4:23
- CD 16
- 1Detached broken fossils…6:11
- 2Chapter 105: Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish?4:51
- 3But you must look at this matter in every light.6:03
- 4Chapter 106: Ahab’s Leg6:37
- 5Chapter 107: The Carpenter7:43
- 6Chapter 108: Ahab and the Carpenter5:54
- 7Look ye, carpenter, I dare say thou callest…5:37
- 8Chapter 109: Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin6:28
- 9Chapter 110: Queequeg in his Coffin4:51
- 10Not a man of the crew gave him up…4:46
- 11But ere this was done, Pip, who had been…5:59
- 12Chapter 111: The Pacific3:33
- 13Chapter 112: The Blacksmith7:23
- CD 17
- 1Chapter 113: The Forge4:19
- 2This done, Perth was about to begin welding…4:34
- 3Chapter 114: The Gilder5:27
- 4Chapter 115: The Pequod Meets The Bachelor6:16
- 5Chapter 116: The Dying Whale4:33
- 6Chapter 117: The Whale Watch3:31
- 7Chapter 118: The Quadrant6:38
- 8Chapter 119: The Candles5:02
- 9Now, as the lightning rod to a spire on shore…6:04
- 10‘Oh! thou clear spirit of clear fire…’6:45
- 11Chapter 120: The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch1:20
- 12Chapter 121: Midnight – The Forecastle Bulwarks4:17
- 13Chapter 122: Midnight Aloft – Thunder and Lightning0:27
- 14Chapter 123: The Musket3:30
- 15‘He would have shot me once…’5:39
- 16Chapter 124: The Needle4:33
- 17Meanwhile, whatever were his own secret thoughts…4:13
- CD 18
- 1Chapter 125: The Log and Line4:01
- 2‘I crush the quadrant, the thunder turns the needles…’4:45
- 3Chapter 126: The Life‐Buoy4:26
- 4The lost life‐buoy was now to be replaced…4:38
- 5Chapter 127: The Deck5:34
- 6Chapter 128: The Pequod Meets The Rachel5:13
- 7Now, as it shortly turned out…4:27
- 8Chapter 129: The Cabin4:58
- 9Chapter 130: The Hat6:45
- 10But when three or four days had slided by…5:18
- 11Chapter 131: The Pequod Meets The Delight3:15
- 12Chapter 132: The Symphony3:58
- 13‘Oh Starbuck! it is a mild, mild wind…’4:24
- 14‘Oh, my Captain! my Captain!’4:29
- 15Chapter 133: The Chase – First Day6:50
- CD 19
- 1A gentle joyousness…5:44
- 2And now, while both elastic gunwales were springing…7:09
- 3It is often the case that when a boat is stove…5:50
- 4Chapter 134: The Chase – Second Day6:26
- 5The rigging lived.6:42
- 6While the two crews were yet circling in the waters…4:49
- 7The old man’s hinted thought was true…5:53
- 8Chapter 135: The Chase – Third Day5:54
- 9A whole hour now passed…5:15
- 10Yet the voice spake true…5:50
- 11The harpoon dropped from his hand.5:38
- 12Almost simultaneously, with a mighty volition…5:34
- 13Diving beneath the settling ship…5:31
- 14Epilogue2:25
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M19x CDJuly 2005


