The Minister's Wooing

About this film

LibriVox recording of The Minister's Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Read in English by J. M. Smallheer; Jim Locke; Amy Deuchler; Denise Nordell; Kathi Reynolds; Eva Davis; jhWang; garyday Harriet Beecher Stowe is today best known for her classic novel Uncle Tom's Cabin . However, that book was certainly not her only remarkable anti-slavery work. In The Minister's Wooing , Stowe takes the reader into 18th century New England, and uses that setting to explore themes of slavery and religion, as the background to a domestic story. Mary, the heroine of this story, is a woman between several candidates for matrimony. The man she truly loved is lost at sea, and so she finally decides to marry a minister whom she does not love. Will there be a happy end? - Summary by Carolin For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . M4B Audiobook 00-23 (221MB) M4B Audiobook 24-45 (169MB)

Directors & creators

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;religion; slavery; love; marriage; New England; Calvinism; Boston; wedding; 1859; 2017

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