Henry De Vere Stacpoole

Henry De Vere Stacpoole (ps. Tyler De Saix, ur. 1863 w Kingstown, zm. 1951) – irlandzki pisarz.

Przez ponad 40 lat był lekarzem okrętowym; znał bardzo dobrze wyspy południowego Pacyfiku i szczegółowo opisywał je w swoich książkach. W latach 20. XX wieku przeniósł się na wyspę Wight, gdzie zmarł. Jego powieść Błękitna laguna została trzykrotnie zekranizowana.

Książki

• The Intended: A Novel (1894)
• Pierrot! A Story (novel) (1895)
• Death, the Knight, and the Lady: A Ghost Story (novel) (1897)
• The Doctor: A Study from Life (novel) (1899)
• The Rapin (novel) (1899), republished as Toto: A Parisian Sketch (1910)
• Feyshad (short children's story) (unknown), included in Poppyland (1914)
• The Little Prince (children's story) (unknown), included in Poppyland (1914)
• Pierrette (children's stories) (1900), republished as Poppyland (1914)
• The Story of Abdul and Hafiz (short children's story) (unknown), included in Poppyland (1914)
• The Bourgeois (1901)
• The Lady-Killer (1902)
• Fanny Lambert: A Novel (1906)
• The Golden Astrolabe, co-authored by W. A. Bryce (1906)
• The Meddler: A Novel of Sorts, co-authored by W. A. Bryce (1907)
• The Crimson Azaleas: A Novel (1908)
• The Blue Lagoon (novel) (1908)
• The Cottage on the Fells (novel) (1908), republished as Murder on the Fell (1937)
• Patsy: A Story (novel) (1908)
• The Reavers: A Tale of Wild Adventure on the Moors of Lorne, co-authored by W. A. Bryce (1908)
• The Man Without a Head, under the pseudonym Tyler De Saix (1908)
• The Vulture's Prey, under the pseudonym Tyler De Saix (1908)
• Garryowen: The Romance of a Race-Horse (novel) (1909)
• The Pools of Silence (novel) (1909)
• The Drums of War (1910)
• Poems and Ballads (collection) (1910)
• The Cruise of the King Fisher: A Tale of Deep-Sea Adventure (1910)
• The Ship of Coral: A Tropical Romance (1911)
• 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)
• The Poems of Francois Villon (translations) (1914)
• Father O'Flynn (1914)
• The New Optimism (1914)
• Monsieur de Rochefort: A Romance of Old Paris (1914), published in the U.S. as The Presentation (1914)
• The Blue Horizon: Romance from the Tropics and the Sea (1915)
• The North Sea and Other Poems (1915)
• The Pearl Fishers (1915)
• The Red Day (fictional diary) (1915)
• The Reef of Stars: A Romance of the Tropics (1916), published in the U.S. as The Gold Trail (1916)
• Corporal Jacques of the Foreign Legion (1916)
• Francois Villon: His Life and Times, 1431-1463 (literary biography) (1916)
• In Blue Waters (1917)
• Sea Plunder (1917)
• The Starlit Garden: A Romance of the South (1917), published in the U.S. as The Ghost Girl (1918)
• The Willow Tree: The Romance of a Japanese Garden (1918)
• The Man Who Lost Himself (novel) (1918)
• The Beach of Dreams: A Story of the True World (1919)
• Under Blue Skies (1919)
• Sappho: A New Rendering (translations) (1920)
• A Man of the Islands (1920)
• Uncle Simon, co-authored by Margaret Stacpoole (1920), published in the U.S. as The Man Who Found Himself (1920)
• Satan: A Story of the Sea King's Country (1921)
• Men, Women, and Beasts (1922)
• Vanderdecken: The Story of a Man (1922)
• The Garden of God (1923) (sequel to The Blue Lagoon)
• Golden Ballast (1924)
• Ocean Tramps (1924)
• The House of Crimson Shadows: A Romance (1925)
• The Gates of Morning (1925) (sequel to The Garden of God)
• The City in the Sea (1925)
• Stories East and West: Tales of Men and Women (1926)
• The Mystery of Uncle Bollard (1927)
• Goblin Market: A Romance (novel) (1927)
• Tropic Love (1928)
• Roxanne (1928), published in the U.S. as The Return of Spring (1928)
• Eileen of the Trees (1929)
• The Girl of the Golden Reef: A Romance of the Blue Lagoon (1929)
• The Tales of Mynheer Amayat (1930)
• The Chank Shell: A Tropical Romance of Love and Treasure (1930), published in the U.S. as The Island of Lost Women (1930)
• Pacific Gold (1931)
• Love on the Adriatic (1932)
• The Lost Caravan (1932)
• Mandarin Gardens (1933)
• The Naked Soul: The Story of a Modern Knight (1933)
• The Blue Lagoon Omnibus (1933)
• The Vengeance of Mynheer Van Lok and Other Stories (1934)
• The Longshore Girl: A Romance (novel) (1935)
• Green Coral (a collection of stories) (1935)
• The Sunstone (1936)
• In a Bonchurch Garden: Poems and Translations (1937)
• Ginger Adams (1937)
• High-Yaller (1938)
• Old Sailors Never Lie and Other Tales of Land and Sea by One of Them (1938)
• Due East of Friday (1939)
• An American at Oxford (1941)
• Men and Mice, 1863-1942 (autobiography) (1942)
• Oxford Goes to War: A Novel (1943)
• More Men and Mice (autobiography) (1945)
• Harley Street: A Novel (1946)
• The Story of My Village (novel) (1947)
• The Land of Little Horses. A Story (novel) (1949)
• The Man in Armour (novel) (1949)

Bibliografia

• E. A. Malone, "H. de Vere Stacpoole," Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 153: Late-Victorian and Edwardian British Novelists, First Series, edited by G. M. Johnson, Detroit: Gale, 1995, pp. 278–287.
• R. F. Hardin, "The Man Who Wrote The Blue Lagoon: Stacpoole's Pastoral Center," English Literature in Transition (1880-1920), vol. 39, no. 2, 1996, pp. 205–20.
• C. Deméocq, "Henry de Vere Stacpoole aux Kerguelen," Carnets de l'Exotisme, vol. 17-18, 1996, pp. 151–52.