Moby-Dick

The 1851 text. 135 parts, about 209,224 words, 16 hours of reading. Source edition.

Passages the guide marks

Call me Ishmael.
Chapter 1, opening line · Read it in I: Loomings
All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall?
Chapter 36, The Quarter-Deck · Read it in XXXVI: The Quarterdeck
Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation?
Chapter 42, The Whiteness of the Whale · Read it in XLII: The Whiteness of the Whale
Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.
Chapter 135 · Read it in CXXXV: The Chase⁠—Third Day
And I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Epilogue · Read it in Epilogue

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