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Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

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# Moby Dick; Or, The Whale ## Overview This entity is a digital representation of the novel *Moby Dick; Or, The Whale* by Herman Melville, structured as a complete literary work. It exists as a text file within a digital archive and has been processed to identify its internal components. The novel was extracted and organized on January 23, 2026, from a plain text source file, preserving its full narrative structure including chapters, sections, and front matter. ## Context This digital edition of *Moby Dick* is part of the [Moby Dick](arke:01KFNR0H0Q791Y1SMZWEQ09FGV) collection, which groups related digital objects such as the source file [moby-dick.txt](arke:01KFNR0Z394A878Y5AQ63MQEM2) and its structural components. The novel was processed by an automated system to identify and segment its constituent parts, including prefatory sections, chapters, and the epilogue. The collection includes metadata and transcriber's notes that provide context about the text's provenance, noting it is a composite from multiple electronic text sources, including versions from Project Gutenberg and the ERIS project at Virginia Tech, preserved by The University of Adelaide Library. ## Contents The novel contains the full text of Melville's 1851 masterpiece, structured into 135 numbered chapters and several unnumbered chapters with descriptive titles such as "The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud" and "The Decanter." It begins with the famous opening line in [Chapter 1. Loomings](arke:01KFNR849AZNBWE9DYJRZR7PSA) and proceeds through a narrative of Captain Ahab's obsessive quest for the white whale. The text is preceded by the [Etymology](arke:01KFNR8361MZ2T7A143MWZ9K4M) and [Extracts](arke:01KFNR82YYCTKCKZWXDPCZ5WQE) sections, which provide scholarly and literary context. The work concludes with an [Epilogue](arke:01KFNR82Z5CBX2Q533X4Q3E9DS). The novel's content includes detailed descriptions of whaling, philosophical meditations, and dramatic scenes such as the typhoon in "The Candles" and the final confrontation with Moby Dick. The digital structure also includes [Original Transcriber’s Notes](arke:01KFNR8481S3R2CGAH9DG7TQ0J) that detail the text's compilation from various sources.
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