Melville, H.: Moby Dick (Unabridged)

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Moby Dick (more info)
William Hootkins, reader
Herman Melville,


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

Moby Dick (more info)
William Hootkins, reader
Herman Melville,


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

Moby Dick (more info)
William Hootkins, reader
Herman Melville,


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

Moby Dick (more info)
William Hootkins, reader
Herman Melville,


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

Moby Dick (more info)
William Hootkins, reader
Herman Melville,


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

Moby Dick (more info)
William Hootkins, reader
Herman Melville,


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

Moby Dick (more info)
William Hootkins, reader
Herman Melville,


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

Moby Dick (more info)
William Hootkins, reader
Herman Melville,


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

Moby Dick (more info)
William Hootkins, reader
Herman Melville,


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

Moby Dick (more info)
William Hootkins, reader
Herman Melville,


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

Moby Dick (more info)
William Hootkins, reader
Herman Melville,


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

Moby Dick (more info)
William Hootkins, reader
Herman Melville,


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

Moby Dick (more info)
William Hootkins, reader
Herman Melville,


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

Moby Dick (more info)
William Hootkins, reader
Herman Melville,


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

Moby Dick (more info)
William Hootkins, reader
Herman Melville,


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

Moby Dick (more info)
William Hootkins, reader
Herman Melville,


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

Moby Dick (more info)
William Hootkins, reader
Herman Melville,


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

Moby Dick (more info)
William Hootkins, reader
Herman Melville,


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

Moby Dick (more info)
William Hootkins, reader
Herman Melville,


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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