Published in 1908, The Blue Lagoon is Henry De Vere Stacpoole’s enduringly popular romance about two young cousins, Dicky and Emmeline, who are shipwrecked on a deserted Pacific island and grow up there without adult guidance. Stacpoole’s lyrical descriptions of tropical nature and his unsentimental treatment of the children’s natural development made the novel a bestseller and prompted several film adaptations.
As an Edwardian pastoral romance with themes of innocence and natural virtue, it holds a distinctive place in popular fiction history. Download this free EPUB from Better Gutenberg for the complete original text.