Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Author of Moby Dick

Herman Melville

Ishmael

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Ahab

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Starbuck

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Queequeg

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Stubb

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A character in this novel uses the blood of three men to baptize a weapon.

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In one part of this novel, the main characters encounter a man named Boomer. who recently lost his arm while driving the Samuel Enderby.

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A seer in this novel prophecies that a character will see two hearses, one made out of American wood, before being killed by hemp rope.

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While staying in New Bedford, the protagonist of this novel rooms with a man named Queequeg.

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The narrator of this novel uses a coffin to stay afloat as the Pequod is destroyed by the title figure, which is seeked out by Captain Ahab.

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Early in this book, the narrator listens to a sermon given by Father Mapple about Jonah.

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The narrator of this book observes a man shave with a harpoon, and is eventually saved by clinging to a coffin built for that latter man.

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The protagonist of this book serves with characters like Starbuck, the tattooed cannibal Queequeg, and the maniacal Captain Ahab.

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In this work's epilogue, the Rachel rescues a character clinging to a coffin.

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A character of this book offers a gold doubloon to whoever finds the title character first.

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The narrator of this novel spends a chapter explaining why a certain color inspires "vague, nameless horror" in him.

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The narrator of this work signs up with a ship owned by Captains Bildad and Peleg in Nantucket.

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One character in this book stops himself from “methodically [knocking] people’s hats off” in the street when he gets grim.

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This work’s 135th chapter includes the quote “From hell’s heart I stab at thee.”

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Pip goes crazy after Stubb leaves in this book, in which a death is foretold by the “Parsee” Fedallah.

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A Parsi servant in this work predicts that two hearses driving across the sea will serve as an omen for another character's death.

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One character in this novel symbolically eschews his happiness by throwing away his pipe.

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To preserve valuable information, this character has skeleton dimensions tattooed on his right arm.

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He is given the three-hundredth lay and is concerned to see Elijah following him.

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Another man in this novel offers a gold doubloon bearing a picture of three mountain peaks to the first to sight the title character.

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In this novel, a prediction that one character will be killed by hemp rope is correctly made by the mysterious Fedallah.

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