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The Blue Lagoon: A Romance

By H. De Vere Stacpoole

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Cover: Tahitian Landscape (1892), oil on canvas by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1903)

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.

Summary source: Wikipedia: The Blue Lagoon (novel) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Table of contents

  1. 1: Where the Slush Lamp Burns
  2. 2: Under the Stars
  3. 3: The Shadow and the Fire
  4. 4: And Like a Dream Dissolved
  5. 5: Voices Heard in the Mist
  6. 6: Dawn on a Wide, Wide Sea
  7. 7: Story of the Pig and the Billy-Goat
  8. 8: “S-H-E-N-a-N-D-O-a-H”
  9. 9: Shadows in the Moonlight
  10. 10: The Tragedy of the Boats
  11. 11: The Island
  12. 12: The Lake of Azure
  13. 13: Death Veiled with Lichen
  14. 14: Echoes of Fairy-Land
  15. 15: Fair Pictures in the Blue
  16. 16: The Poetry of Learning
  17. 17: The Devil’s Cask
  18. 18: The Rat Hunt
  19. 19: Starlight on the Foam
  20. 20: The Dreamer on the Reef
  21. 21: The Garland of Flowers
  22. 22: Alone
  23. 23: They Move Away
  24. 24: Under the Artu Tree
  25. 25: Half Child—Half Savage
  26. 26: The Demon of the Reef
  27. 27: What Beauty Concealed
  28. 28: The Sound of a Drum
  29. 29: Sails upon the Sea
  30. 30: The Schooner
  31. 31: Love Steps in
  32. 32: The Sleep of Paradise
  33. 33: An Island Honeymoon
  34. 34: The Vanishing of Emmeline
  35. 35: Chapter 35
  36. 36: The Newcomer
  37. 37: Hannah
  38. 38: The Lagoon of Fire
  39. 39: The Cyclone
  40. 40: The Stricken Woods
  41. 41: A Fallen Idol
  42. 42: The Expedition
  43. 43: The Keeper of the Lagoon
  44. 44: The Hand of the Sea
  45. 45: Together
  46. 46: Mad Lestrange
  47. 47: The Secret of the Azure
  48. 48: Captain Fountain
  49. 49: Due South