H. De Vere Stacpoole
1863–1951
Biography
H. De Vere Stacpoole (1863–1951) was an Irish author, known in full as Henry de Vere Stacpoole. He wrote under his own name and at times under the pseudonym Tyler de Saix. Over a long career he produced novels, romances and short stories for a wide readership, and he lived into the middle of the twentieth century.
His most famous book is The Blue Lagoon (1908), a romance about a boy and a girl who are cast away on a tropical island and grow up there, far from the society they left behind. Its island setting and its picture of a life lived close to nature made it a commercial success. The story has been filmed several times, most widely in the 1980 version with Brooke Shields in the lead, and the films have kept the name of the novel in circulation long after the book first appeared.
The site holds The Blue Lagoon, the book that most readers meet him through. Anyone who knows the story only from the films will find the novel's original telling of the castaways' lives, and can compare it with the screen versions.
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Books
The Blue Lagoon: A Romance
by H. De Vere Stacpoole
The Blue Lagoon is a coming-of-age romance novel written by Henry De Vere Stacpoole, first published by T. Fisher Unwin in 1908. The Blue Lagoon explores themes of love, childhood innocence, and conflict between civilisation and nature. This book uses the racial and other slurs…
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