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Stacpoole's greatest commercial success came in 1908 with The Blue Lagoon, which was reprinted at least twenty-four times in thirteen years, and from which films were released in 1923, now lost, then 1949 and 1980. The Blue Lagoon is the story of two cousins, Dicky and Emmeline Lestrange, stranded on a remote island with a beautiful lagoon ...
Lagoon is an Africanfuturist first contact novel by Nnedi Okorafor (2014, Hodder & Stoughton; 2015, Saga Press/Simon & Schuster). It has drawn much scholarly attention since its publication, some of which was written before Okorafor's important clarification that her work is "Africanfuturist" rather than "Afrofuturist."
The novel was reprinted over twenty times in the following twelve years. [6] Louis J. McQuilland of The Bookman wrote in 1921: It is probable that The Blue Lagoon will always be the most favoured of Stacpoole's books because its appeal is universal. It is an idyll of childhood and youth amid tropical splendours which catch the heart by their ...
The Garden of God is a romance novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole, first published in 1923.It is the first sequel to his best-selling novel The Blue Lagoon (1908) and continued (and concluded) with The Gates of Morning (1925).
Cleary did extensive literary searches to verify the find and consulted Stoker expert and biographer Paul Murray who confirmed the story was unknown, lost and buried in the archives for more than ...
First published in 1941 by the Viking Press, the book centers on a pair of mallards who raise their brood of ducklings on an island in the lagoon in the Boston Public Garden. It won the 1942 Caldecott Medal for McCloskey's illustrations, executed in charcoal then lithographed on zinc plates. [1] [2] As of 2003, the book had sold over two ...
By the time The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was published in 1892, another batch of 12 stories (later collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes) was also appearing episodically in magazines ...
The crew of six made their way through the 15-foot (4.6 m) waves to shore, where townspeople took them to a hotel and provided them with dry clothes. [1] The only fatality was the captain's dog and ship's mascot, which Clow called "an intelligent and faithful animal, and a great favorite with the captain and crew".