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Dreams, Obsessions and Ambitions

Stories of dreams, ambition, obsession, social ascent, great goals, and the price a person pays for wanting to gain something, achieve something, or become someone else. This collection belongs to books in which a dream may be both hope and trap.

Curator note

A green light across the water, a white whale in the distance, the vision of another life, or a name that is meant to matter one day. These stories follow the moment when desire stops being only a dream and becomes a force that can guide a person — or consume them.

Works in this collection

1 published works

Moby Dick

Herman Melville

The sea here is not merely a setting, but a force that tests, tempts, and consumes. Moby-Dick belongs to those stories in which desire slowly hardens into obsession, and courage crosses into something far more dangerous. Beneath its vastness lies adventure, fate, and the unsettling question of whether a person is truly struggling against the world outside — or against something within himself.

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