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Henry de Vere Stacpoole (9 April 1863 – 12 April 1951) was an Irish author. His 1908 romance novel The Blue Lagoon has been adapted into multiple films. He published using his own name and sometimes the pseudonym Tyler de Saix.
Stacpoole, Henry de Vere (1863–1951), doctor and novelist, was born 9 April 1863 at Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire), Co. Dublin, the youngest child and only son of Rev. William Church Stacpoole, clergyman and director of Kingstown school, and his wife, Charlotte Augusta (née Mountjoy), of Sally Park, Tallaght, Co. Dublin.
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 the conflict between civilisation and the natural world.
Henry De Vere Stacpoole (1863-1951), Irishman, ship's doctor, poet, and Victorian era author, best known for his South Sea romance The Blue Lagoon (1908); On either side of the broad beach before them the cocoa-nut trees came down like two regiments, and bending gazed at their own reflections in the lagoon.
Plot summary. References. The Garden of God is a romance novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole, first published in 1923. It is the first sequel to his best-selling novel The Blue Lagoon (1908) and continued (and concluded) with The Gates of Morning (1925). The Garden of God was adapted into the film Return to the Blue Lagoon, released in 1991.
(1863-1951) UK medical doctor and author, younger brother of William Henry Stacpoole; best known for his South Sea romances, including non-sf Robinsonades like, most famously, The Blue Lagoon: A Romance ( 1908 ), filmed as The Blue Lagoon ( 1923, 1948, 1950 and 1980 ), or The Chank Shell: A Tropical Romance of Love and Treasure ( 1930; vt The Is...
Henry de Vere Stacpoole has 116 books on Goodreads with 9882 ratings. Henry de Vere Stacpoole’s most popular book is The Blue Lagoon.
