The Blue Lagoon (Annotated)

First published in 1908, The Blue Lagoon is a romance of shipwreck, childhood, and awakening desire set amid the sensuous isolation of a South Pacific island. Stacpoole's prose blends late-Victorian adventure fiction with pastoral idyll and fin-de-siècle fascination with "natural" life beyond civilization. Through the story of two children cast away from society, the novel explores innocence, inst...