American author Kate Chopin (1850-1904) wrote two novels, including the widely condemned The Awakening, and about a hundred short stories in the 1890s. Most of her fiction is set in Louisiana and most of her best-known work focuses on the lives of sensitive, intelligent women.
A selection of stories to entertain for when you have a spare 10 minutes, including 'After the Race', by James Joyce; 'Three Questions', by Leo Tolstoy; 'The Child's Story', by Charles Dickens; and 'A Transgression', by Anton Chekhov, read by Sir Michael ...[SEE MORE]