Ahab's wife, or, The star-gazer: a novel

A mild blue day

The dirge

The crossing

Reverie

The window

The steamboat

The paddlewheel

The island

A difficult farewell

The giant

Winter, summers

New Bedford

Boston

The Petrel

A storm at night

The brightness of brightness

A rose

Our lady of the rocks

The return of the Petrel, with three letters

A comb

The fourth letter

The camel

The Sea-Fancy inn

The Sussex

The cabin boy

The companion

Captain Coffins' story, secondhand

A whaleboat by moonlight

Captain Morrell's story, thirdhand

Captain Ahab's story, my first acquaintance with him

Aloft

"Pardon me"

Reunion

Revelation

Sea storms

The frost wind

Collision

The course

The distance of the stars

The sentence

What do you fetch for your mouth?

The beginning of the debate

Father and son

The human animal

The Alba Albatross

Ganglion

Postscript on the above

Soaring

Portrait of a virgin listening

Icarus

The test

The funeral

The contest

I am married

Aboard the Pequod

The hurricane house

Ahab's jottings

Kit's ruminations

Starbuck introduces himself

Ahab overheard

A letter to the lighthouse

Poor Kit's a-cold

Arctic

Ahab in his cabin

Aloft, the Pequod

Starbuck: ship's log

Starbuck communes with Mary, his wife

In the steward's pantry

Ahab's comfort

Nantucket, the faraway isle

Ahab prepares for the next voyage

Breakfast

Shame

B'twixt

Enter: the gaoler and the judge

On the moor

A slow spring

Churches

Baptismal

Fire

Ahab addresses the flames

Ahab's wife

A sky full of angels

Resurrection

The purpose of art

The office of a friend

Childhood as an island

The world of Rebekkah Swain

Kentucky seasons

A winter tale

The burden

The lantern

Shakespeare and company

The guide

Getting started

Forest murmurs

In the cupola

To summer

Wife

The Mitchells

Vestal street

Ahab

From cupola to wharf

Idyll

The comet

Frannie's letter from an inland lighthouse

An angry letter from Aunt Agatha

Letter to an inland lighthouse

The minister in the woods

The history of snow and restlessness

Altar rock

Mothering

Chowder swirls

The birthing room

The leg

Christmas Eve

A last glimpse of the Pequod: Christmas Day

The Jeroboam returns

The first part of Ahab's third voyage after his marriage

Moon watch

Letter from Susan

The Samuel Enderby of London puts in for repairs at Nantucket

The distress of justice

To Siasconset

The hedge

Journey toward the starry sky, in present tense

"Sconset morning

More of morning: Tashtego's feather makes the letter S

The neighbor beyond the hedge

The roar of guilt

The return of the Delight

The Perseid

The woolsack

Letter from Margaret Fuller, from England

Letter from David Poland, Virginia

Letter to beloved kin

Letter from Margaret Fuller, from Italy

The judge's invitation

Mrs. Maynard's note

Preparations

Frannie

Liberty and the dolphins

A suitable marriage

What has proved to be a last visit

A song

A squeeze of the hand

Una preaches to the waves

The great fire: June 1846

Reflections on a wreck

During the pleasure party

Celestial

A new friend

A sermon overheard

Plans

Recitation by beach fire

Letter from Susan, forwarded

The roof walk.