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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:
3am - Monstrous Audacity of the Woman , A Warlike Chapter, Culminating in the Flouting of the Minister by the Woman , Babbie and Margaret - Defence of the Manse continued , Beginning of the Twenty-Four Hours , Caddam - Love Leading to a Rupture , Circumstances Leading to the First Sermon in Approval of Women , Contains a Birth, Which is Sufficient for One Chapter , Continued Misbehaviour of the Egyptian Woman , End of the State of Indecision , End of the Twenty-Four Hours , First Coming of the Egyptian Woman , First Journey of the Dominie to the Thrums during the 24 Hours , First Sermon Against Women , Has the Folly of Looking Into a Woman's Eyes , How Babbie Spent the Night of August Fourth , In which the Soldiers Meet the Amazons of Thrums , Intrusion of the Haggart into these Pages Against the Author's Wish , Leading Swiftly to the Appalling Marriage , Lovers , Margaret, the Precentor and God between , Night, Margaret, Flashing of a Lantern , Rain, Mist, The Jaws , Rintoul and Babbie - Breakdown of the Defence of the Manse , Runs Alongside the Making of a Minister , Scene at the Spittal , Second Coming of the Egyptian Woman , 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 , Tells in a Whisper of Man's Fall during the Curling Season , The Glen at Break of Day , The Great Rain , The Hill Before Darkness Fell , The Meeting for Rain , The Minister Bewitched - Second Sermon Against Women , The Minister Dances to the Woman's Piping , The New World, and the Women who may not Dwell therein , The Night Watchers , The Woman Considered in Absence - The Adventures of a Military Cloak , Thrums During the 24 Hours - Defence of the Manse , Tragedy of a Mud House , Various Bodies Converging on the Hill , While the Ten O'Clock Bell was Ringing