The Blue Lagoon (Annotated)

The Blue Lagoon is a romance of shipwreck, childhood, and awakening desire, set amid the seductive isolation of a South Pacific island. Stacpoole's prose combines Edwardian adventure fiction with pastoral idyll and a sometimes unsettling naturalism, presenting innocence as both beautiful and perilous. Published in 1908, the novel belongs to a wider fin-de-siècle fascination with "primitive" spaces...