The Blue Lagoon av Henry De Vere Stacpoole

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<p><I>The Blue Lagoon</I> (1908) is a novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole. The first in a trilogy of novels including <I>The Garden of God</I> (1923) and <I>The Gates of Morning</I> (1925), <I>The Blue Lagoon</I> is a story of romance and adventure inspired by the author¿s travels in the South Pacific. A total of five films have been adapted from the novel, including the hit 1980 drama of the same name starring Brooke Shields. ¿The Pacific slept; a vast, vague swell flowing from far away down south under the night, lifted the <I>Northumberland</I> on its undulations to the rattling sound of the reef points and the occasional creak of the rudder; whilst overhead, near the fiery arch of the Milky Way, hung the Southern Cross like a broken kite.¿ When a terrible shipwreck leaves them stranded on a deserted island in the South Pacific, Dick and Emmeline Lestrange are merely children. Paddy Button, the ship¿s cook and the only other survivor, takes it upon himself to train them in the ways of