The Little Minister: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Little Minister, credited to J. M. Barrie, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Little Minister by J. M. Barrie. Read in English by MaryAnn; Sylviamb; Nathan C Jones; TriciaG; and Kalynda. 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Little Minister
• Author credits: J. M. Barrie
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 46
• Listed recording duration: 11:11:41

Catalogue topics

• fiction

Opening tracks: first 24 of 46

1. 00 - JM Barrie, a Literary and Biographical Portrait — 45:14
2. 01 - The Love Light — 9:43
3. 02 - Runs Alongside the Making of a Minister — 20:10
4. 03 - The Night Watchers — 22:54
5. 04 - First Coming of the Egyptian Woman — 22:22
6. 05 - A Warlike Chapter, Culminating in the Flouting of the Minister by the Woman — 13:40
7. 06 - In which the Soldiers Meet the Amazons of Thrums — 19:05
8. 07 - Has the Folly of Looking Into a Woman's Eyes — 11:33
9. 08 - 3am - Monstrous Audacity of the Woman — 17:33
10. 09 - The Woman Considered in Absence - The Adventures of a Military Cloak — 17:44
11. 10 - First Sermon Against Women — 19:30
12. 11 - Tells in a Whisper of Man's Fall during the Curling Season — 16:08
13. 12 - Tragedy of a Mud House — 9:53
14. 13 - Second Coming of the Egyptian Woman — 13:30
15. 14 - The Minister Dances to the Woman's Piping — 15:18
16. 15 - The Minister Bewitched - Second Sermon Against Women — 13:42
17. 16 - Continued Misbehaviour of the Egyptian Woman — 12:14
18. 17 - Intrusion of the Haggart into these Pages Against the Author's Wish — 16:49
19. 18 - Caddam - Love Leading to a Rupture — 12:38
20. 19 - Circumstances Leading to the First Sermon in Approval of Women — 12:01
21. 20 - End of the State of Indecision — 14:27
22. 21 - Night, Margaret, Flashing of a Lantern — 16:09
23. 22 - Lovers — 13:56
24. 23 - Contains a Birth, Which is Sufficient for One Chapter — 9:53

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