Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby Dick consists of 135 chapters, in which narrative and essayistic portions intermingle, as well as an epilogue and front matter. The novel famously includes passages of whale lore and carefully detailed cetology—the branch of zoology concerned with the study of cetaceans.
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