Moby Dick; or, The Whale (version 2)


Read by Peter Dann

(5 stars; 1 review)

This great, genre-bending novel nominally centres on the quest of the monomaniacal Captain Ahab to gain revenge for the loss of his leg to an apparently malicious white sperm whale known in the fishery as Moby Dick.

At times the compulsive and bombastic Captain Ahab sounds more like a figure from grand guignol than a reincarnated Lear, and listeners may find themselves wondering if the story of Ahab's attempted revenge, as narrated by Ishmael, one of his crew members, is at least partly a pretext allowing the author to explore other subjects in which he actually has a deeper interest — themes including the true brotherhood of man, the wondrous qualities, varieties and behaviour of whales themselves, and the immense courage and ingenuity required of the men who hunted these whales for their oil in the mid-nineteenth century. (Summary by Peter Dann) (23 hr 34 min)

Chapters

Etymology 4:38 Read by Peter Dann
Extracts 23:45 Read by Peter Dann
1: Loomings 14:27 Read by Peter Dann
2: The carpet-bag 9:15 Read by Peter Dann
3: The Spouter-Inn 34:21 Read by Peter Dann
4: The counterpane 10:25 Read by Peter Dann
5: Breakfast 4:51 Read by Peter Dann
6: The street 5:46 Read by Peter Dann
7: The chapel 6:51 Read by Peter Dann
8: The pulpit 6:19 Read by Peter Dann
9: The sermon 23:56 Read by Peter Dann
10: A bosom friend 10:01 Read by Peter Dann
11: Nightgown 4:31 Read by Peter Dann
12: Biographical 5:46 Read by Peter Dann
13: Wheelbarrow 10:54 Read by Peter Dann
14: Nantucket 5:15 Read by Peter Dann
15: Chowder 7:21 Read by Peter Dann
16: The ship 34:40 Read by Peter Dann
17: The Ramadan 13:50 Read by Peter Dann
18: His mark 8:39 Read by Peter Dann
19: The prophet 7:33 Read by Peter Dann
20: All astir 5:41 Read by Peter Dann
21: Going aboard 7:10 Read by Peter Dann
22: Merry Christmas 10:30 Read by Peter Dann
23: The lee shore 3:02 Read by Peter Dann
24: The advocate 11:21 Read by Peter Dann
25: Poscript 2:18 Read by Peter Dann
26: Knights and squires 8:31 Read by Peter Dann
27: Knights and squires 10:51 Read by Peter Dann
28: Ahab 9:20 Read by Peter Dann
29: Enter Ahab; to him, Stubb 8:09 Read by Peter Dann
30: The pipe 2:22 Read by Peter Dann
31: Queen Mab 5:38 Read by Peter Dann
32: Cetology 35:07 Read by Peter Dann
33: The specksnyder 6:41 Read by Peter Dann
34: The cabin-table 14:11 Read by Peter Dann
35: The mast-head 16:23 Read by Peter Dann
36: The quarter-deck 20:04 Read by Peter Dann
37: Sunset 4:52 Read by Peter Dann
38: Dusk 3:24 Read by Peter Dann
39: First night-watch 2:18 Read by Peter Dann
40: Midnight, forecastle 11:42 Read by Peter Dann
41: Moby Dick 26:04 Read by Peter Dann
42: The whiteness of the whale 24:17 Read by Peter Dann
43: Hark! 2:14 Read by Peter Dann
44: The chart 13:54 Read by Peter Dann
45: The affadavit 21:47 Read by Peter Dann
46: Surmises 7:08 Read by Peter Dann
47: The mat-maker 6:25 Read by Peter Dann
48: The first lowering 24:49 Read by Peter Dann
49: The hyena 5:31 Read by Peter Dann
50: Ahab's boat and crew. Fedallah. 6:18 Read by Peter Dann
51: The spirit-spout 10:17 Read by Peter Dann
52: The Albatross 4:57 Read by Peter Dann
53: The gam 10:11 Read by Peter Dann
54: The Town-Ho's story 48:15 Read by Peter Dann
55: Of the monstrous pictures of whales 12:28 Read by Peter Dann
56: Of the less erroneous pictures of whales, and the true pictures of whaling … 8:19 Read by Peter Dann
57: Of whales in paint; in teeth; in wood; in sheet-iron; in stone; in mountain… 6:26 Read by Peter Dann
58: Brit 6:53 Read by Peter Dann
59: Squid 6:25 Read by Peter Dann
60: The line 8:57 Read by Peter Dann
61: Stubb kills a whale 12:39 Read by Peter Dann
62: The dart 3:41 Read by Peter Dann
63: The crotch 3:25 Read by Peter Dann
64: Stubb's supper 17:53 Read by Peter Dann
65: The whale as a dish 6:17 Read by Peter Dann
66: The shark massacre 4:15 Read by Peter Dann
67: Cutting in 4:55 Read by Peter Dann
68: The blanket 7:48 Read by Peter Dann
69: The funeral 3:22 Read by Peter Dann
70: The Sphynx 6:12 Read by Peter Dann
71: The Jeroboam's story 14:40 Read by Peter Dann
72: The monkey-rope 10:30 Read by Peter Dann
73: Stubb and Flask kill a right whale; and then have a talk over him 12:07 Read by Peter Dann
74: The sperm whale's head — contrasted view 10:41 Read by Peter Dann
75: The right whale's head — contrasted view 8:13 Read by Peter Dann
76: The battering ram 6:06 Read by Peter Dann
77: The great Heidelburgh Tun 4:43 Read by Peter Dann
78: Cistern and buckets 10:15 Read by Peter Dann
79: The praire 6:52 Read by Peter Dann
80: The nut 6:15 Read by Peter Dann
81: The Pequod meets the Virgin 26:20 Read by Peter Dann
82: The honor and glory of whaling 7:40 Read by Peter Dann
83: Jonah historically regarded 5:05 Read by Peter Dann
84: Pitchpoling 5:31 Read by Peter Dann
85: The fountain 12:50 Read by Peter Dann
86: The tail 12:05 Read by Peter Dann
87: The Grand Armada 29:22 Read by Peter Dann
88: Schools and schoolmasters 8:14 Read by Peter Dann
89: Fast-fish and loose-fish 9:21 Read by Peter Dann
90: Heads or tails 6:58 Read by Peter Dann
91: The Pequod meets the Rose-bud 15:18 Read by Peter Dann
92: Ambergris 6:27 Read by Peter Dann
93: The castaway 10:33 Read by Peter Dann
94: A squeeze of the hand 8:36 Read by Peter Dann
95: The cassock 3:33 Read by Peter Dann
96: The try-works 11:53 Read by Peter Dann
97: The lamp 1:53 Read by Peter Dann
98: Stowing down and clearing up 6:59 Read by Peter Dann
99: The doubloon 16:17 Read by Peter Dann
100: Leg and arm 16:06 Read by Peter Dann
101: The decanter 11:28 Read by Peter Dann
102: A bower in the Arsacides 10:40 Read by Peter Dann
103: Measurements of the whale's skeleton 6:01 Read by Peter Dann
104: The fossil whale 9:43 Read by Peter Dann
105: Does the whale's magnitude diminish? — Will he perish? 10:29 Read by Peter Dann
106: Ahab's leg 6:31 Read by Peter Dann
107: The carpenter 7:40 Read by Peter Dann
108: Ahab and the carpenter 10:40 Read by Peter Dann
109: Ahab and Starbuck in the cabin 6:21 Read by Peter Dann
110: Queequeg in his coffin 14:40 Read by Peter Dann
111: The Pacific 3:34 Read by Peter Dann
112: The blacksmith 7:08 Read by Peter Dann
113: The forge 8:36 Read by Peter Dann
114: The gilder 5:01 Read by Peter Dann
115: The Pequod meets the Bachelor 5:50 Read by Peter Dann
116: The dying whale 4:18 Read by Peter Dann
117: The whale watch 3:31 Read by Peter Dann
118: The quadrant 6:20 Read by Peter Dann
119: The candles 17:14 Read by Peter Dann
120: The deck towards the end of the first night watch 1:39 Read by Peter Dann
121: Midnight — The forecastle bulwarks 3:57 Read by Peter Dann
122: Midnight aloft — Thunder and lightning 0:47 Read by Peter Dann
123: The musket 8:09 Read by Peter Dann
124: The needle 8:06 Read by Peter Dann
125: The log and line 7:47 Read by Peter Dann
126: The life-buoy 8:16 Read by Peter Dann
127: The deck 5:16 Read by Peter Dann
128: The Pequod meets the Rachel 8:49 Read by Peter Dann
129: The cabin 4:19 Read by Peter Dann
130: The hat 11:09 Read by Peter Dann
131: The Pequod meets the Delight 3:22 Read by Peter Dann
132: The symphony 12:07 Read by Peter Dann
133: The chase — First day 23:44 Read by Peter Dann
134: The chase — Second day 21:41 Read by Peter Dann
135: The chase — Third day 30:34 Read by Peter Dann
Epilogue 2:24 Read by Peter Dann