The Little Minister by J.M. Barrie

The story revolves around the life of a young minister who becomes embroiled in a love triangle with a beautiful woman and her lover, a charming but unscrupulous man. The minister's attempts to navigate this complex situation are complicated by his own feelings for the woman and his sense of duty as a clergyman.

By J.M. Barrie · First published 1891 · Genre: Romance, Drama, Social Commentary · 45 chapters

Contents

• The Love-Light
• Runs Alongside the Making of a Minister
• 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
• 3 a. M. -- Monstrous Audacity of the Woman
• The Woman Considered in Absence -- Adventures of a Military Cloak
• First Sermon against Women
• Tells in a Whisper of Man's Fall during the Curling Season
• Tragedy of a Mud House
• Second Coming of the Egyptian Woman
• The Minister Dances to the Woman's Piping
• The Minister Bewitched -- Second Sermon against Women
• Continued Misbehaviour of the Egyptian Woman
• Intrusion of Haggart into these Pages against the Author's Wish
• Caddam Love Leading to a Rupture
• Circumstances Leading to the First Sermon in Approval of Women
• End of the State of Indecision
• Night Margaret Flashing of a Lantern
• Lovers
• Contains a Birth, which is Sufficient for One Chapter
• New World, and the Woman who May not Dwell Therein
• Beginning of the Twenty-Four Hours
• Scene at the Spittal
• First Journey of the Dominie to Thrums during the Twenty-Four Hours
• The Hill before Darkness Fell -- Scene of the Impending Catastrophe
• Story of the Egyptian
• The Meeting for Rain
• Various Bodies Converging on the Hill
• Leading Swiftly to the Appalling Marriage
• While the Ten o'Clock Bell was Ringing
• The Great Rain
• The Glen at Break of Day
• Story of the Dominie
• Second Journey of the Dominie to Thrums during the Twenty-Four Hours
• Thrums during the Twenty-Four Hours-Defence of the Manse
• How Babbie Spent the Night of August Fourth
• Babbie and Margaret -- Defence of the Manse Continued
• Rintoul and Babbie -- Breakdown of the Defence of the Manse
• Margaret, the Precentor. and God between
• Rain -- Mist -- the Jaws
• End of the Twenty-Four Hours
• Talk of a Little Maid Since Grown Tall

More by J.M. Barrie

• Margaret Ogilvy (1888)
• Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906)
• David and I Set Forth Upon a Journey (1917)
• The Little Nursery Governess (1871)
• Her Marriage, her Clothes, her Appetite, and an Inventory of Her (1908)
• A Night-Piece (1895)
• The Fight for Timothy (1912)
• A Shock (1918)
• All works by J.M. Barrie