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Redburn

by Herman Melville

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  1. 1Chapter I — How Wellingborough Redburn’s Taste for the Sea Was Born…
  2. 2Chapter II — Redburn’s Departure From Home
  3. 3Chapter III — He Arrives in Town
  4. 4Chapter IV — How He Disposed of His Fowling-Piece
  5. 5Chapter V — He Purchases His Sea-Wardrobe, and on a Dismal Rainy Da…
  6. 6Chapter VI — He Is Initiated in the Business of Cleaning Out the Pi…
  7. 7Chapter VII — He Gets to Sea and Feels Very Bad
  8. 8Chapter VIII — He Is Put Into the Larboard Watch; Gets Sea-Sick; an…
  9. 9Chapter IX — The Sailors Becoming a Little Social, Redburn Converse…
  10. 10Chapter X — He Is Very Much Frightened; the Sailors Abuse Him; and…
  11. 11Chapter XI — He Helps Wash the Decks, and Then Goes to Breakfast
  12. 12Chapter XII — He Gives Some Account of One of His Shipmates Called…
  13. 13Chapter XIII — He Has a Fine Day at Sea, Begins to Like It; but Cha…
  14. 14Chapter XIV — He Contemplates Making a Social Call on the Captain i…
  15. 15Chapter XV — The Melancholy State of His Wardrobe
  16. 16Chapter XVI — At Dead of Night He Is Sent Up to Loose the Main-Skysail
  17. 17Chapter XVII — The Cook and Steward
  18. 18Chapter XVIII — He Endeavors to Improve His Mind; and Tells of One…
  19. 19Chapter XIX — A Narrow Escape
  20. 20Chapter XX — In a Fog He Is Set to Work as a Bell-Toller, and Behol…
  21. 21Chapter XXI — A Whaleman and a Man-of-War’s-Man
  22. 22Chapter XXII — The Highlander Passes a Wreck
  23. 23Chapter XXIII — An Unaccountable Cabin-Passenger, and a Mysterious…
  24. 24Chapter XXIV — HE Begins to Hop About in the Rigging Like a Saint J…
  25. 25Chapter XXV — Quarter-Deck Furniture
  26. 26Chapter XXVI — A Sailor a Jack of All Trades
  27. 27Chapter XXVII — He Gets a Peep at Ireland, and at Last Arrives at L…
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII — He Goes to Supper at the Sign of the Baltimore Cli…
  29. 29Chapter XXIX — Redburn Deferentially Discourses Concerning the Pros…
  30. 30Chapter XXX — Redburn Grows Intolerably Flat and Stupid Over Some O…
  31. 31Chapter XXXI — With His Prosy Old Guide-Book, He Takes a Prosy Stro…
  32. 32Chapter XXXII — The Docks
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII — The Salt-Droghers, and German Emigrant Ships
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV — The Irrawaddy
  35. 35Chapter XXXV — Galliots, Coast-of-Guinea-Man, and Floating Chapel
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI — The Old Church of St. Nicholas, and the Dead-House
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII — What Redburn Saw in Launcelott’s-Hey
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII — The Dock-Wall Beggars
  39. 39Chapter XXXIX — The Booble-Alleys of the Town
  40. 40Chapter XL — Placards, Brass-Jewelers, Truck-Horses, and Steamers
  41. 41Chapter XLI — Redburn Roves About Hither and Thither
  42. 42Chapter XLII — His Adventure With the Cross Old Gentleman
  43. 43Chapter XLIII — He Takes a Delightful Ramble Into the Country; and…
  44. 44Chapter XLIV — Redburn Introduces Master Harry Bolton to the Favora…
  45. 45Chapter XLV — Harry Bolton Kidnaps Redburn, and Carries Him Off to…
  46. 46Chapter XLVI — A Mysterious Night in London
  47. 47Chapter XLVII — Homeward Bound
  48. 48Chapter XLVIII — A Living Corpse
  49. 49Chapter XLIX — Carlo
  50. 50Chapter L — Harry Bolton at Sea
  51. 51Chapter LI — The Emigrants
  52. 52Chapter LII — The Emigrants’ Kitchen
  53. 53Chapter LIII — The Horatii and Curiatii
  54. 54Chapter LIV — Some Superior Old Nail-Rod and Pig-Tail
  55. 55Chapter LV — Drawing Nigh to the Last Scene in Jackson’s Career
  56. 56Chapter LVI — Under the Lee of the Long-Boat, Redburn and Harry Hol…
  57. 57Chapter LVII — Almost a Famine
  58. 58Chapter LVIII — Though the Highlander Puts Into No Harbor as Yet; S…
  59. 59Chapter LIX — The Last End of Jackson
  60. 60Chapter LX — Home at Last
  61. 61Chapter LXI — Redburn and Harry, Arm in Arm, in Harbor
  62. 62Chapter LXII — The Last That Was Ever Heard of Harry Bolton

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