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The same source text, four lengths. Nothing is deleted — shorter paths are generated from metadata, and skipped chapters stay one click away.
Narrative Core
A fast route through the opening shore chapters, the Pequod's departure, Ahab's declared hunt, major warnings, late conflict, and the final chase.
- Keep the plot understandable without permanent cuts.
- Preserve Ishmael and Queequeg's bond, Ahab's quest, the voyage's warnings, and the ending.
- Represent skipped chapters by summary so students can reenter the full text.
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Classroom Standard
A default teaching path that keeps the narrative spine while restoring selected middle chapters that show why the novel is stranger and richer than its plot.
- Preserve the plot while making Melville's digressive design visible.
- Include major character, cetology, gam, whaling-labor, symbolic, legal-political, and theatrical chapters.
- Give teachers a defensible default path that can expand into thematic trails.
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Full Text
Every reading unit in source order, with optional guide layers available but no abridgment.
- Preserve the complete source text.
- Keep every abridged-path omission recoverable — nothing is deleted.
- Keep prefatory matter, chapters, epilogue, and source order visible.
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