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)
JM Barrie, a Literary and Biographical PortraitThe Love LightRuns Alongside the Making of a MinisterThe Night WatchersFirst Coming of the Egyptian WomanA Warlike Chapter, Culminating in the Flouting of the Minister by the WomanIn which the Soldiers Meet the Amazons of ThrumsHas the Folly of Looking Into a Woman's Eyes3am - Monstrous Audacity of the WomanThe Woman Considered in Absence - The Adventures of a Military CloakFirst Sermon Against WomenTells in a Whisper of Man's Fall during the Curling SeasonTragedy of a Mud HouseSecond Coming of the Egyptian WomanThe Minister Dances to the Woman's PipingThe Minister Bewitched - Second Sermon Against WomenContinued Misbehaviour of the Egyptian WomanIntrusion of the Haggart into these Pages Against the Author's WishCaddam - Love Leading to a RuptureCircumstances Leading to the First Sermon in Approval of WomenEnd of the State of IndecisionNight, Margaret, Flashing of a LanternLoversContains a Birth, Which is Sufficient for One ChapterThe New World, and the Women who may not Dwell thereinBeginning of the Twenty-Four HoursScene at the SpittalFirst Journey of the Dominie to the Thrums during the 24 HoursThe Hill Before Darkness FellStory of the EgyptianThe Meeting for RainVarious Bodies Converging on the HillLeading Swiftly to the Appalling MarriageWhile the Ten O'Clock Bell was RingingThe Great RainThe Glen at Break of DayStory of the DominieSecond Journey of the Dominie to the Thrums during the 24 HoursThrums During the 24 Hours - Defence of the ManseHow Babbie Spent the Night of August FourthBabbie and Margaret - Defence of the Manse continuedRintoul and Babbie - Breakdown of the Defence of the ManseMargaret, the Precentor and God betweenRain, Mist, The JawsEnd of the Twenty-Four HoursTalk of a Little Maid since Grown Tall
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