{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5db5","title":"The Sad Story of a Dramatic Critic","publish_year":1895,"publish_source":"New Budget","author":"H. G. Wells","code":"the-sad-story-of-a-dramatic-critic","words":3081,"image":"gentleman.jpg","image_alt":"A man with a suit and cane, tipping his hat.","genres":["quirky"],"blurb":"But I could not sleep that night. I dreamt of actors—actors glaring, actors smiting their chests, actors flinging out a handful of extended fingers, actors smiling bitterly, laughing despairingly, falling hopelessly, dying idiotically.","description":"The simple living and pragmatic Egbert Cummins is given the job of a theatre critic without having ever been to the theatre. At his first viewing, he becomes a little too immersed.","rating":4,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}