A retelling of Herman Melville · 1851

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

“A restless young sailor signs onto the Nantucket whaler Pequod with his new friend, the harpooneer Queequeg, and discovers that its captain, the one-legged Ahab, means to hunt down the white whale that maimed him — whatever it costs the ship and everyone in it.”

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Contents12 episodes · ~76 min

  1. 1Loomings (Etymology, Extracts and Chapters 1–9)Free
  2. 2A Bosom Friend (Chapters 10–22)🔒
  3. 3Enter Ahab (Chapters 23–35)🔒
  4. 4The Quarter-Deck (Chapters 36–47)🔒
  5. 5The First Lowering (Chapters 48–60)🔒
  6. 6Cutting In (Chapters 61–72)🔒
  7. 7Heads and Tails (Chapters 73–86)🔒
  8. 8The Grand Armada (Chapters 87–98)🔒
  9. 9The Doubloon (Chapters 99–108)🔒
  10. 10The Forge (Chapters 109–118)🔒
  11. 11The Candles (Chapters 119–128)🔒
  12. 12The Chase (Chapters 129–135 and Epilogue)🔒