The Little Minister

James Matthew Barrie

• Publisher: Johnston Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781444635539
• eBook ISBN: 9781473380950
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

"The Little Minister" is an 1891 novel by J. M Barrie. Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860 – 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright most famous as being the creator of Peter Pan. Other notable works by this author include: "Auld Licht Idylls" (1888), "A Window in Thrums" (1890), and "Tommy and Grizel" (1900). Barrie's third novel, "The Little Minister" was inspired by life in the town where his mother grew up, Thrums, and offer the reader an authentic glimpse into nineteenth-century Scottish life. Highly recommended for those who have read and enjoyed his other works. Contents include: "The Love-Light", "Runs Alongside the Making of a Minster", "The Night-Watchers", "First Coming of the Egyptian Woman", "A Warlike Chapter, Culminating in the Flouting of the Minister by the Woman", "In Which the Soldiers Meet the Amazons of Thrums", "Has the Folly of Looking into a Woman's Eyes by Way of Text", etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Introduction
• Contents
• Part I
• XX End of the State of Indecision
• XXI Night—Margaret—Flashing of a Lantern
• XXII Lovers
• XXIII Contains a Birth, Which is Sufficient for One Chapter
• XXIV The New World, and the Woman Who May not Dwell Therein
• XXV Beginning of the Twenty-Four Hours
• XXVI Scene at the Spittal
• XXVII First Journey of the Dominie to Thrums During the Twenty-Four Hours
• XXVIII The Hill Before Darkness Fell—Scene of the Impending Catastrophe
• XXIX Story of the Egyptian
• XXX The Meeting for Rain
• XXXI Various Bodies Converging on the Hill
• XXXII Leading Swiftly to the Appalling Marriage
• XXXIII While the Ten O’Clock Bell was Ringing
• XXXIV The Great Rain
• XXXV The Glen at Break of Day
• XXXVI Story of the Dominie
• XXXVII Second Journey of the Dominie to Thrums During the Twenty-Four Hours
• XXXVIII Thrums During the Twenty-Four Hours—Defence of the Manse
• XXXIX How Babbie Spent the Night of August Fourth
• XL Babbie and Margaret—Defence of the Manse (Continued)
• XLI Rintoul and Babbie—Break-Down of the Defence of the Manse
• XLII Margaret, the Precentor, and God Between
• XLIII Rain—Mist—the Jaws
• XLIV End of the Twenty-Four Hours
• XLV Talk of a Little Maid Since Grown Tall