HENRY DE VERE STACPOOLE

'Henry De Vere Stacpoole' (April 9, 1863 — April 12, 1951) was a Victorian period author, born in Kingstown, Ireland. A ship's doctor for more than forty years, Stacpoole was also an expert on the South Pacific islands. His many books contained detailed descriptions of the natural life and civilizations which he was so close to at home. He also wrote under the pseudonym Tyler De Saix.

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★ '' (1894)

★ ''Pierrot! A Story'' (novel) (1895)

★ '' (novel) (1897)

★ '' (novel) (1899)

★ ''The Rapin'' (novel) (1899), republished as ''Toto: A Parisian Sketch'' (1910)

★ ''Pierrette'' (children's stories) (1900), republished as ''Poppyland'' (1914)

★ ''The Bourgeois'' (1901)

★ ''The Lady-Killer'' (1902)

★ '' (1906)

★ ''The Golden Astrolabe'', co-authored by W. A. Bryce (1906)

★ '', co-authored by W. A. Bryce (1907)

★ '' (1908)

★ ''The Blue Lagoon'' (novel) (1908)

★ ''The Cottage on the Fells'' (novel) (1908), republished as ''Murder on the Fell'' (1937)

★ '' (novel) (1908)

★ '', co-authored by W. A. Bryce (1908)

★ ''The Man Without a Head'', under the pseudonym Tyler De Saix (1908)

★ ''The Vulture's Prey'', under the pseudonym Tyler De Saix (1908)

★ '' (novel) (1909)

★ ''The Pools of Silence'' (novel) (1909)

★ ''The Drums of War'' (1910)

★ ''Poems and Ballads'' (collection) (1910)

★ '' (1910)

★ '' (1911)

★ '' The Order of Release'' (1912)

★ '' (novel) (1912)

★ ''Molly Beamish'' (1913)

★ ''Bird Cay'' (1913)

★ '' (1913)

★ ''The Poems of Francois Villon'' (translations) (1914)

★ ''Father O'Flynn'' (1914)

★ ''The New Optimism'' (1914)

★ '' (1914), published in the U.S. as ''The Presentation'' (1914)

★ '' (1915)

★ ''The North Sea and Other Poems'' (1915)

★ '' The Pearl Fishers'' (1915)

★ ''The Red Day'' (fictional diary) (1915)

★ '' (1916), published in the U.S. as ''The Gold Trail" (1916)

★ ''Corporal Jacques of the Foreign Legion'' (1916)

★ '' (literary biography) (1916)

★ ''In Blue Waters'' (1917)

★ ''Sea Plunder'' (1917)

★ '' (1917), published in the U.S. as ''The Ghost Girl'' (1918)

★ '' (1918)

★ ''The Man Who Lost Himself'' (novel) (1918)

★ '' (1919)

★ ''Under Blue Skies'' (1919)

★ '' (translations) (1920)

★ ''A Man of the Islands'' (1920)

★ '' Uncle Simon'', co-authored by Margaret Stacpoole (1920), published in the U.S. as ''The Man Who Found Himself'' (1920)

★ '' (1921)

★ ''Men, Women, and Beasts'' (1922)

★ '' (1922)

★ ''The Garden of God'' (1923) (sequel to ''The Blue Lagoon'')

★ ''Golden Ballast'' (1924)

★ ''Ocean Tramps'' (1924)

★ '' (1925)

★ ''The Gates of Morning'' (1925) (sequel to ''The Garden of God'')

★ ''The City in the Sea'' (1925)

★ '' (1926)

★ ''The Mystery of Uncle Bollard'' (1927)

★ '' (novel) (1927)

★ ''Tropic Love'' (1928)

★ '' Roxanne'' (1928), published in the U.S. as ''The Return of Spring'' (1928)

★ ''Eileen of the Trees'' (1929)

★ '' (1929)

★ ''The Tales of Mynheer Amayat'' (1930)

★ '' (1930), published in the U.S. as ''The Island of Lost Women'' (1930)

★ ''Pacific Gold'' (1931)

★ ''Love on the Adriatic'' (1932)

★ ''The Lost Caravan'' (1932)

★ ''Mandarin Gardens'' (1933)

★ '' (1933)

★ ''The Blue Lagoon Omnibus'' (1933)

★ ''The Vengeance of Mynheer Van Lok and Other Stories'' (1934)

★ '' (novel) (1935)

★ ''Green Coral'' (a collection of stories) (1935)

★ ''The Sunstone'' (1936)

★ '' (1937)

★ ''Ginger Adams'' (1937)

★ ''High-Yaller'' (1938)

★ ''Old Sailors Never Lie and Other Tales of Land and Sea by One of Them'' (1938)

★ ''Due East of Friday'' (1939)

★ ''An American at Oxford'' (1941)

★ ''Men and Mice, 1863-1942'' (autobiography) (1942)

★ '' (1943)

★ ''More Men and Mice '' (autobiography) (1945)

★ '' (1946)

★ ''The Story of My Village'' (novel) (1947)

★ ''The Land of Little Horses. A Story'' (novel) (1949)

★ ''The Man in Armour'' (novel) (1949)

Sources

★ E. A. Malone, "H. de Vere Stacpoole," ''Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 153: Late-Victorian and Edwardian British Novelists, First Series'', edited by G. M. Johnson, Detroit: Gale, 1995, pp. 278-287.

★ R. F. Hardin, "The Man Who Wrote ''The Blue Lagoon'': Stacpoole's Pastoral Center," ''English Literature in Transition (1880-1920)'', vol. 39, no. 2, 1996, pp. 205-20.

★ C. Deméocq, "Henry de Vere Stacpoole aux Kerguelen," ''Carnets de l'Exotisme'', vol. 17-18, 1996, pp. 151-52.

See Also

★ ''The Blue Lagoon'', a 1949 film

★ ''The Blue Lagoon'', a 1980 film

★ ''Return to the Blue Lagoon'', a 1991 film

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