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Ahab's wife, or, The star-gazer
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Publisher
Harper Perennial
Publication Date
[2005]
Edition
First Harper Perennial edition.
Language
English
On Shelf
Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
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From the Book - First Harper Perennial edition.
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 Coffin's 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.
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