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The Blue Lagoon: A Romance

by H. De Vere Stacpoole (1863–1951)

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  • 4 hours to read
  • 49 chapters
  • Reading level: 7th grade

"The Blue Lagoon: A Romance" by H. De Vere Stacpoole is a coming-of-age romance novel published in 1908. Two young cousins are shipwrecked on a remote South Pacific island, where they must survive alone after their caretaker dies. Growing up in isolation, they discover the mysteries of nature, maturity, and love without guidance from civilization. As they navigate island dangers and their own transformation into adulthood, their innocent paradise becomes a place of wonder and peril, leading to an ambiguous fate.

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  • Islands
  • Love stories
  • Bildungsromans
  • Cousins
  • Adventure stories
  • Shipwrecks
  • Castaways

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Chapter I

WHERE THE SLUSH LAMP BURNS

Mr Button was seated on a sea-chest with a fiddle under his left ear. He was playing the “Shan van vaught,” and accompanying the tune, punctuating it, with blows of his left heel on the fo’cs’le deck.

“O the Frinch are in the bay,
Says the Shan van vaught.”

He was dressed in dungaree trousers, a striped shirt, and a jacket baize—green in parts from the influence of sun and salt. A typical old shell-back, round-shouldered, hooked of finger; a figure with strong hints of a crab about it.

His face was like a moon, seen red through tropical mists; and as he played it wore an expression of strained attention as though the fiddle were telling him tales much more marvellous than the old bald statement about Bantry Bay.

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Contents

Show all 49 chapters
  1. Part I
  2. Chapter I
  3. Chapter II
  4. Chapter III
  5. Chapter IV
  6. Chapter V
  7. Chapter VI
  8. Chapter VII
  9. Chapter VIII: “S-H-E-N-a-N-D-O-a-H”
  10. Chapter IX
  11. Chapter X
  12. Part II
  13. Chapter XI
  14. Chapter XII
  15. Chapter XIII
  16. Chapter XIV
  17. Chapter XV
  18. Part III
  19. Chapter XVI
  20. Chapter XVII
  21. Chapter XVIII
  22. Chapter XIX
  23. Chapter XX
  24. Chapter XXI
  25. Chapter XXII
  26. Chapter XXIII
  27. Part I
  28. Chapter I
  29. Chapter II: Half Child — Half Savage
  30. Chapter III
  31. Chapter IV
  32. Chapter V
  33. Chapter VI
  34. Chapter VII
  35. Chapter VIII
  36. Chapter IX
  37. Part II
  38. Chapter X
  39. Chapter XI
  40. Chapter XII: The Vanishing of Emmeline (Continued)
  41. Chapter XIII
  42. Chapter XIV
  43. Chapter XV
  44. Chapter XVI
  45. Chapter XVII
  46. Chapter XVIII
  47. Chapter XIX
  48. Chapter XX
  49. Chapter XXI
  50. Chapter XXII
  51. Book III
  52. Chapter I
  53. Chapter II
  54. Chapter III
  55. Chapter IV

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This free edition of The Blue Lagoon: A Romance by H. De Vere Stacpoole comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #393, released 1996-01-01. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Romance, Adventure, Novels, British Literature.

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