Ahab's Wife, Or, The Star-gazer
New York : William Morrow, [1999]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xix, 668 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
The adventures of Una Spenser who went to sea disguised as a cabin boy. Shipwrecked, she marries one of the survivors, then falls in love with Captain Ahab, a man obsessed with a white whale. She becomes involved in fighting slavery and in women's rights.
Contents:
A Mild Blue Day -- The Dirge -- The Crossing -- Reverie -- The Window -- The Steamboat -- The Paddlewheel -- The Island -- A Diffieult Farewell -- The Giant -- Winters. Summers -- New Bedford -- Boston -- The Petrel -- A Storm at Night -- The Brightness of Brightness -- A Rose -- Our Lady of the Roeks -- The Return of the Petrel, with Three Letters -- A Comb -- The Fourth Letter -- The Camel -- The Sea-Faney 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.
Subjects:
Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Ship captains' spouses -- Fiction.
Women -- Massachusetts -- Fiction.
Whalers' spouses -- Fiction.
Nantucket Island (Mass.) -- Fiction.
Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Ship captains' spouses -- Fiction.
Women -- Massachusetts -- Fiction.
Whalers' spouses -- Fiction.
Nantucket Island (Mass.) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
0688171877
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F Naslund | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |
A novel inspired by Herman Melville's Moby Dick.