Author:Henry De Vere Stacpoole

Henry De Vere Stacpoole
(1863–1951)

Irish author; best known for his 1908 romance novel The Blue Lagoon, (1908) which has been adapted to film on at least four occasions. Pen names: H. de Vere Stacpoole, Tyler De Saix

Henry De Vere Stacpoole

Works


  • The Intended: A Novel (1894)
  • Pierrot! A Story (novel) (1895)
  • The Doctor: A Study from Life (novel) (1899)
  • The Rapin (novel) (1899). Republished as Toto: A Parisian Sketch (1910).
  • The Bourgeois (1901)
  • The Lady-Killer (1902)
  • Fanny Lambert: A Novel (1906) IA
  • The Golden Astrolabe, with by W. A. Bryce (1906).
  • The Meddler: A Novel of Sorts, with W. A. Bryce (1907).
  • The Crimson Azaleas: A Novel (1908) IA
  • Patsy: A Story (novel) (1908) PG : IA
  • The Reavers: A Tale of Wild Adventure on the Moors of Lorne, with W. A. Bryce (1908)
  • The Man Without a Head (as Tyler De Saix) (1908)
  • The Vulture's Prey, (as Tyler De Saix) (1908)
  • Garryowen: The Romance of a Race-Horse (novel) (1909) IA
  • The Pools of Silence (novel) (1909) IA
  • The Cruise of the King Fisher: A Tale of Deep-Sea Adventure (1910)
  • The Drums of War (1910)
  • Poems and Ballads (collection) (1910) IA
  • The Ship of Coral: A Tropical Romance (1911) IA
  • The Order of Release (1912)
  • The Street of the Flute-Player: A Romance (novel) (1912)
  • Molly Beamish (1913)
  • Bird Cay (1913)
  • The Children of the Sea: A Romance (1913)
  • Father O'Flynn (1914)
  • Poppyland (1914) children's short stories
    • Feyshad (1914)
    • The Little Prince (1914)
    • Pierrette (1900
  • The Story of Abdul and Hafiz (1914)
  • Monsieur de Rochefort: A Romance of Old Paris (1914), published in the US as The Presentation (1914) IA
  • The New Optimism (1914) IA
  • The Blue Horizon: Romance from the Tropics and the Sea (1915)
  • The North Sea and Other Poems (1915)
  • The Pearl Fishers (1915) IA
  • The Red Day (1915)
  • The Reef of Stars: A Romance of the Tropics (1916), published in the US as The Gold Trail (1916) ia
  • Corporal Jacques of the Foreign Legion (1916)
  • François Villon: His Life and Times, 1431-1463 (literary biography) (1916) IA
  • In Blue Waters (1917)
  • Sea Plunder (1917)
  • The Starlit Garden: A Romance of the South (1917), published in the US as The Ghost Girl (1918)
  • The Willow Tree: The Romance of a Japanese Garden (1918)
  • Under Blue Skies (1919)
  • A Man of the Islands (1920)
  • Uncle Simon, with Margaret Stacpoole (1920), published in the US as The Man Who Found Himself (1920) IA
  • Satan: A Story of the Sea King's Country (1921) a.k.a. Satan: a Romance of the Bahamas (1921) IA
  • Men, Women, and Beasts (1922)
  • Vanderdecken: The Story of a Man (1922) IA

The Blue Lagoon trilogy

Translations

  • The Poems of François Villon (translations) (1914) IA
  • Sappho: A New Rendering (translations) (1920) PG : IA

Works from magazines

Longer works and series
  • The Luck of Slocum in The Popular Magazine (1915) (series)
    • "The Fortunate Island" in The Popular Magazine (1915 Nov 20) (ss)
  • "Picaroons" in The Popular Magazine (1916) (2-part serial)
    • "Part 1" (1920 Oct 20) (ss)
    • "Part 2" (1920 Nov 7) (ss)
  • Sea Plunder (The Popular Magazine, 1916) (series)
  • "The man who found himself" (with Margaret Stacpoole) (1920 Apr & May, in Smith's Magazine) (2-part novella)
  • Sea Plunder (The Popular Magazine, 1916) (series)
    • IV. "Avalon Bay" (1916 Dec 20)
  • A Man of Iron (The Popular Magazine, 1920) (series)
    • IV. "Money Talks" (1920 June 7)
    • V. "The Story of a Beard" (1920 June 20)
  • Me and Slane (The Popular Magazine, 1922) (series)
    • IV. "Iron Law" Sept 1922
  • Vanderdecken in The Popular Magazine, (1922; 2-part serial)
    • Part 1 (1922 March 7)
    • Part 2 (1922 March 20)
  • Coral Sands (1927 Nov 19, in The Popular Stories magazine) (novel)
Non-fiction
  • "Fragments of Villon" (1913 July, The Forum)
  • "The Wonders of Iceland" (1922, in The Windsor Magazine)

Works about Stacpoole

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.


This author died in 1951, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 73 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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