Books with title The Blue Lagoon: A Romance

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The Blue Lagoon is the story of two children shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific. They grow up there, in sun-drenched paradise, living in a hut on the beach and spending their days fishing, swimming, diving for pearls, and exploring the island. Innocent of the real world, they survive on their resourcefulness and the bounty of nature. Over time, friendship blossoms into love.

The Blue Lagoon is a romance novel written by Henry De Vere Stacpoole and was first published by T. Fisher Unwin in 1908. It is the first novel of the Blue Lagoon trilogy, which also includes The Garden of God (1923) and The Gates of Morning (1925). The novel has inspired several film adaptations, most notably The Blue Lagoon starring Brooke Shields as Emmeline and Christopher Atkins as Richard ("Dicky" in the book)

This early work by Henry De Vere Stacpoole was originally published in 1908 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Blue Lagoon' is a novel about two young children and a galley cook who are the survivors of a shipwreck in the South Pacific. Henry De Vere Stacpoole was born on April 9th 1863 in Kingstown, Ireland. After finishing his education, Stacpoole travelled widely, taking up a job as a ship's doctor. His time spent at sea undoubtedly inspired many stories and characters in his later writing. Stacpoole's writing career started with the publication of The Intended in 1894, but his most famous work is The Blue Lagoon, a romance novel published in 1908.

The Blue Lagoon is a 1908 love story and the first book of the Blue Lagoon trilogy, which also comprises The Garden of God and The Gates of Morning. The book has enthused many motion picture versions, most especially The Blue Lagoon featuring Brooke Shields as Emmeline and Christopher Atkinsas Richard (Dicky in the novel). The tale focuses on two cousins, Dicky and Emmeline Lestrange, who are stranded with a dinghy chef on an island in the South Pacific resulting from a wreckage. The dinghy chef, Paddy Button, shoulders the obligation for the kids and shows them how to live, warning them to shun the "arita" berries, which he refers to as "the never-wake-up berries." Two short years after the wreckage, Paddy croaks due to overindulging into drinking. The kids live on their ingenuity and the glut of their isolated island. They stay in a cottage and went on fishing, swimming, getting pearls, and discovering the lost paradise. Dicky and Emmeline became juvenile adults and started to be attracted with each other. Oblivious of their human sexual desire, they do not discern how to show their sexual attraction to each other. Finally, they carried out their relationship. Henry De Vere Stacpoole, defines their physical connection as having been "conducted just as the birds conduct their love affairs. An affair absolutely natural, absolutely blameless, and without sin. It was a marriage according to nature, without feast or guests." Henry De Vere Stacpoole was an Irish writer, born in Ireland in Kingstown now known as Dún Laoghaire. His most popular novel is the 1908 love story The Blue Lagoon, which has been made into a movie in no less than four times. He printed under his real name and at times the pen name Tyler De Saix. After a short profession as a ship's physician, which brought him to different outlandish places in the South Pacific Ocean which was then used in his stories.