A collection of Short Stories by Anton Chekhov featuring ‘A Tragic Actor’, ‘In A Strange Land’, ‘Oh The Public’, ‘The Looking Glass’, ‘Her Husband’, and ‘Overdoing It’. These stories are small masterpieces. The scene is set quickly and within a few sentences the story line is underway. But all seem to contain an element of the unexpected.
In ‘A Tragic Actor’, a man who believes he is destined for great things, but his life does not turn out as planned. The protagonist, Alexander Ivanovich Petrov, is a struggling actor who has never had much success. He spends his days working at a small theater in a small town, and his nights drinking and dreaming of the day when he will finally make it big.