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The Little Minister

by J. M. BARRIE (1860 - 1937)

Before "Peter Pan" came "The Little Minister", J.M. Barrie's first published novel. This is not a children's book, but reflections on life in a remote village in Scotland. The story opens with the minister and his mother moving into the village of Thrums, where the minister must earn the respect of the villagers, threading his way through class differences, politics and suspicion of the travelling gypsies. But what would happen if the newly respectable minister of Thrums fell in love with a gypsy woman? And how will her secret impact upon them all? (Summary by Beth Thomas)

Listen next episodes of The Little Minister:
Babbie and Margaret - Defence of the Manse continued , Beginning of the Twenty-Four Hours , Contains a Birth, Which is Sufficient for One Chapter , End of the Twenty-Four Hours , First Journey of the Dominie to the Thrums during the 24 Hours , How Babbie Spent the Night of August Fourth , Leading Swiftly to the Appalling Marriage , Margaret, the Precentor and God between , Rain, Mist, The Jaws , Rintoul and Babbie - Breakdown of the Defence of the Manse , Scene at the Spittal , Second Journey of the Dominie to the Thrums during the 24 Hours , Story of the Dominie , Story of the Egyptian , Talk of a Little Maid since Grown Tall , The Glen at Break of Day , The Great Rain , The Hill Before Darkness Fell , The Meeting for Rain , The New World, and the Women who may not Dwell therein , Thrums During the 24 Hours - Defence of the Manse , Various Bodies Converging on the Hill , While the Ten O'Clock Bell was Ringing