Ahab's Wife

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In Token

Of My Admiration and Affection

This Book Is Inscribed

John C. Morrison

Contents

List of Illustrations

Extracts

1 Â Â
A Mild Blue Day

7 Â Â
The Paddlewheel

8 Â Â
The Island

9 Â Â
A Difficult Farewell

10 Â Â
The Giant

11 Â Â
Winters, Summers

12 Â Â
New Bedford

13 Â Â
Boston

14 Â Â
The
Petrel

15 Â Â
A Storm at Night

16 Â Â
The Brightness of Brightness

17 Â Â
A Rose

18 Â Â
Our Lady of the Rocks

19 Â Â
The Return of the
Petrel
, with Three Letters

20 Â Â
A Comb

21 Â Â
The Fourth Letter

22 Â Â
The Camel

23 Â Â
The Sea-Fancy Inn

24 Â Â
The Sussex

25 Â Â
The Cabin Boy

26 Â Â
The Companion

27 Â Â
Captain Coffin's StoryâSecondhand

28 Â Â
A Whaleboat by Moonlight

29 Â Â
Captain Morrell's StoryâThirdhand

30 Â Â
Captain Ahab's StoryâMy First Acquaintance with Him

36 Â Â
The Frost Wind

37 Â Â
Collision

38 Â Â
The Course

39 Â Â
The Distance of the Stars

40 Â Â
The Sentence

41 Â Â
What Do You Fetch for Your Mouth?

42 Â Â
The Beginning of the Debate

43 Â Â
Father and Son

44 Â Â
The Human Animal

45 Â Â
The
Alba Albatross

46 Â Â
Ganglion

47 Â Â
Postscript on the Above

48 Â Â
Soaring

49 Â Â
Portrait of a Virgin Listening

55 Â Â
Aboard the
Pequod

56 Â Â
The Hurricane House

57 Â Â
Ahab's Jottings

58 Â Â
Kit's Ruminations

59 Â Â
Starbuck Introduces Himself

60 Â Â
Ahab Overheard

61 Â Â
A Letter to the Lighthouse

62 Â Â
Poor Kit's a-Cold

63 Â Â
Arctic

64 Â Â
Ahab in His Cabin

65 Â Â
Aloft, the
Pequod

66 Â Â
Starbuck: Ship's Log

67 Â Â
Starbuck Communes with Mary, His Wife

68 Â Â
In the Steward's Pantry

69 Â Â
Ahab's Comfort

70 Â Â
Nantucketâthe Faraway Isle

71 Â Â
Ahab Prepares for the Next Voyage

72 Â Â
Breakfast

73 Â Â
Shame

74 Â Â
B'twixt

75 Â Â
Enter: The Gaoler and the Judge

81 Â Â
Ahab Addresses the Flames

82 Â Â
Ahab's Wife

83 Â Â
A Sky Full of Angels

84 Â Â
Resurrection

85 Â Â
The Purpose of Art

86 Â Â
The Office of a Friend

87 Â Â
Childhood as an Island

88 Â Â
The World of Rebekkah Swain

89 Â Â
Kentucky Seasons

90 Â Â
A Winter Tale

91 Â Â
The Burden

92 Â Â
The Lantern

93 Â Â
Shakespeare and Company

94 Â Â
The Guide

95 Â Â
Getting Started

96 Â Â
Forest Murmurs

97 Â Â
In the Cupola

98 Â Â
To Summer

99 Â Â
Wife

100 Â Â
The Mitchells

101 Â Â
Vestal Street

102 Â Â
Ahab

103 Â Â
From Cupola to Wharf

104 Â Â
Idyll

105 Â Â
The Comet

106 Â Â
Frannie's Letter from an Inland Lighthouse

107 Â Â
An Angry Letter from Aunt Agatha

108 Â Â
Letter to an Inland Lighthouse

109 Â Â
The Minister in the Woods

110 Â Â
The History of Snow and Restlessness

111 Â Â
Altar Rock

112 Â Â
Mothering

113 Â Â
Chowder Swirls

114 Â Â
The Birthing Room

115 Â Â
The Leg

116 Â Â
Christmas Eve

117 Â Â
A Last Glimpse of the
Pequod
: Christmas Day

118 Â Â
The
Jeroboam
Returns

119 Â Â
The First Part of Ahab's Third Voyage After His Marriage

120 Â Â
Moon Watch

121 Â Â
Letter from Susan

122 Â Â The
Samuel
Enderby of London Puts in for Repairs at Nantucket

123 Â Â
The Distress of Justice

124 Â Â
To Siasconset

125 Â Â
The Hedge

126 Â Â
Journey Toward the Starry Sky, in Present Tense

127 Â Â
'Sconset Morning

128 Â Â
More of Morning: T ashtego's Feather Makes the Letter
S

129 Â Â
The Neighbor Beyond the Hedge

130 Â Â
The Roar of Guilt

131 Â Â
The Return of the
Delight

132 Â Â
The Perseid

133 Â Â
The Woolsack

134 Â Â
Letter from Margaret Fuller, from England

135 Â Â
Letter from David Poland, Virginia

136 Â Â
Letter to Beloved Kin

137 Â Â
Letter from Margaret Fuller, from Italy

138 Â Â
The Judge's Invitation

139 Â Â
Mrs. Maynard's Note

140 Â Â
Preparations

141 Â Â
Frannie

142 Â Â
Liberty and the Dolphins

143 Â Â
A Suitable Marriage

144 Â Â
What Has Proved to Be a Last Visit

145 Â Â
A Song

146 Â Â
A Squeeze of the Hand

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