Little Minister
J. M. Barrie
46 chapters · 11 h 12 min · English
Read by MaryAnn, Sylviamb, TriciaG, Nathan C Jones, Kalynda
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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)
Chapters
1 JM Barrie, a Literary and Biographical Portrait 45 min 2 The Love Light 10 min 3 Runs Alongside the Making of a Minister 20 min 4 The Night Watchers 23 min 5 First Coming of the Egyptian Woman 22 min 6 A Warlike Chapter, Culminating in the Flouting of the Minister by the Woman 14 min 7 In which the Soldiers Meet the Amazons of Thrums 19 min 8 Has the Folly of Looking Into a Woman's Eyes 12 min 9 3am - Monstrous Audacity of the Woman 18 min 10 The Woman Considered in Absence - The Adventures of a Military Cloak 18 min 11 First Sermon Against Women 20 min 12 Tells in a Whisper of Man's Fall during the Curling Season 16 min 13 Tragedy of a Mud House 10 min 14 Second Coming of the Egyptian Woman 14 min 15 The Minister Dances to the Woman's Piping 15 min 16 The Minister Bewitched - Second Sermon Against Women 14 min 17 Continued Misbehaviour of the Egyptian Woman 12 min 18 Intrusion of the Haggart into these Pages Against the Author's Wish 17 min 19 Caddam - Love Leading to a Rupture 13 min 20 Circumstances Leading to the First Sermon in Approval of Women 12 min 21 End of the State of Indecision 14 min 22 Night, Margaret, Flashing of a Lantern 16 min 23 Lovers 14 min 24 Contains a Birth, Which is Sufficient for One Chapter 10 min 25 The New World, and the Women who may not Dwell therein 9 min 26 Beginning of the Twenty-Four Hours 14 min 27 Scene at the Spittal 13 min 28 First Journey of the Dominie to the Thrums during the 24 Hours 8 min 29 The Hill Before Darkness Fell 12 min 30 Story of the Egyptian 14 min 31 The Meeting for Rain 12 min 32 Various Bodies Converging on the Hill 15 min 33 Leading Swiftly to the Appalling Marriage 10 min 34 While the Ten O'Clock Bell was Ringing 10 min 35 The Great Rain 7 min 36 The Glen at Break of Day 23 min 37 Story of the Dominie 16 min 38 Second Journey of the Dominie to the Thrums during the 24 Hours 13 min 39 Thrums During the 24 Hours - Defence of the Manse 15 min 40 How Babbie Spent the Night of August Fourth 11 min 41 Babbie and Margaret - Defence of the Manse continued 10 min 42 Rintoul and Babbie - Breakdown of the Defence of the Manse 12 min 43 Margaret, the Precentor and God between 14 min 44 Rain, Mist, The Jaws 16 min 45 End of the Twenty-Four Hours 11 min 46 Talk of a Little Maid since Grown Tall 12 min
