author
H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
1863–1951
Best remembered for writing The Blue Lagoon, he was an Irish novelist and physician whose stories mixed romance, adventure, and the lure of faraway islands. His life at sea and medical training gave his fiction a vivid, worldly feel that helped make him widely popular in the early 20th century.
34 Audiobooks
The Blue Lagoon: A Romance
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
Magic
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
A primal woman
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
The Man Who Lost Himself
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
The Beach of Dreams: A Romance
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
The Garden of God
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
The Presentation
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
Passion fruit
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
Patsy
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
Vanderdecken
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
The Ghost Girl
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
The Rapin
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
The Gates of Morning
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
Ocean Tramps
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
The Ship of Coral
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
The Crimson Azaleas: A Novel
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
The Man Who Found Himself (Uncle Simon)
by Margaret Robson Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
The New Optimism
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
Garryowen
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
Kadjaman
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
The Drums of War
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
Corporal Jacques of the Foreign Legion
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
Fanny Lambert: A Novel
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
The Pools of Silence
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
The Pearl Fishers
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
Satan: A Romance of the Bahamas
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
Death, the Knight, and the Lady: A Ghost Story
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
The Cottage on the Fells
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
Maru: A Dream of the Sea
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
Sea Plunder
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
The Story of Gombi
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
The man with a grouch
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
The city in the sea
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
The romance of Captain Duffy
by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
About the author
Born in Kingstown, County Dublin, on April 9, 1863, Henry De Vere Stacpoole grew up in an Irish family and later trained as a doctor in London. He worked as a ship's doctor, and those travels strongly shaped the tropical settings and seafaring atmosphere that appear again and again in his fiction.
He wrote many novels, but The Blue Lagoon (1908) became his most famous and enduring success. Its story of children growing up in isolation on a South Seas island captured readers' imaginations and was adapted for film more than once.
Stacpoole published both under his own name and, at times, under the pseudonym Tyler de Saix. He died on April 12, 1951, but his name remains closely tied to romantic adventure fiction and to one of the best-known island novels of the last century.