A serialised classic, retold for sleep

Moby-Dick, night by night.

Moby-Dick, night by night. The sea book of sea books, made gentle. Inn fires and whale lore, wide oceans and watch-bells, Melville's 1851 original retold in our own words at a calm distance. Each night is a long, slow session of a chapter or three, read by a calm voice with long silences. Take them in order, or open the night that suits the evening. The nights are planned and on their way; every night below switches on the night it is ready. The story is Melville's; every sentence here is our own.

Serialised classic

The Nights

The whole book, retold slowly for sleep. Each night switches on the night it is ready.

12 nights

Coming soon Night 1, The Spouter-Inn A winter night in New Bedford, a strange bedfellow with a heart of gold, and chowder by the fire.

Coming soon Night 2, The Pequod Nantucket, a ship dressed in whalebone, and papers signed for a three-years' voyage on Christmas Day.

Coming soon Night 3, Captain Ahab Days at sea before the captain appears, and when he does, the deck goes quiet under his ivory step.

Coming soon Night 4, The Doubloon A gold coin nailed to the mast, an oath drunk from harpoon-sockets, and the white whale named at last.

Coming soon Night 5, The First Lowering Boats over the side for the first time. Spray, silence, and the long pull across open water.

Coming soon Night 6, Ships That Pass Mid-ocean meetings with other ships, each with news and stories, traded rail to rail on the swell.

Coming soon Night 7, The Great South Sea Into the Pacific. Flying fish, warm nights, and the slow craft of the whale-hunter's world.

Coming soon Night 8, The Grand Armada A whole nation of whales at once, mothers and calves in a still lagoon at the heart of the herd.

Coming soon Night 9, The Try-Works Firelight on deck at midnight, the ship turned lamp-bright and strange, and the long watch talked away.

Coming soon Night 10, The Pacific Watch Quiet seas and quarter-deck talk. The carpenter, the blacksmith, and a coffin made into a lifebuoy.

Coming soon Night 11, The Typhoon A storm takes the ship and leaves her. Corposants on the yards, and a compass turned gently wrong.

Coming soon Night 12, The Chase Three days with the white whale himself, and the sea closing smooth and quiet over the story's end.

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