An edition of The Blue Lagoon (1900)

The Blue Lagoon

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An edition of The Blue Lagoon (1900)

The Blue Lagoon

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"Two children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific and must learn to fend for themselves on a remote island, where their love blossoms amid a tropical paradise. Stacpoole's popular 1908 romance inspired two sequels and three movie versions. This edition features lovely illustrations by Golden Age master Willy Pogány"--

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Language
English
Pages
214

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Cover of: The Blue Lagoon
The Blue Lagoon
2013, Dover Publications, Inc.
in English
Cover of: The Blue Lagoon
The Blue Lagoon: A Romance (Large Print Edition)
March 13, 2007, BiblioBazaar
Paperback in English
Cover of: The Blue Lagoon
The Blue Lagoon
March 30, 2006, Dodo Press
Paperback in English
Cover of: The blue lagoon

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Edition Notes

Published in
Mineola, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.912
Library of Congress
PR6037.T15 B585 2013, PR6037.T15B585 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
vii, 214 pages
Number of pages
214

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31146447M
Internet Archive
bluelagoon0000stac
ISBN 10
0486493008
ISBN 13
9780486493008
LCCN
2013020480

Work Description

Mr. Button was seated on a sea-chest with a fiddle under his left ear. He was playing the "Shan van vaught," and accompanying the tune, punctuating it, with blows of his left heel on the fo'cs'le deck. "O the Frinch are in the bay, Says the Shan van vaught." He was dressed in dungaree trousers, a striped shirt, and a jacket baize - green in parts from the influence of sun and salt. A typical old shell-back, round-shouldered, hooked of finger; a figure with strong hints of a crab about it. His face was like a moon, seen red through tropical mists; and as he played it wore an expression of strained attention as though the fiddle were telling him tales much more marvellous than the old bald statement about Bantry Bay. "Left-handed Pat," was his fo'cs'le name; not because he was left-handed, but simply because everything he did he did wrong - or nearly so. Reefing or furling, or handling a slush tub - if a mistake was to be made, he made it. He was a Celt, and all the salt seas that had flowed between him and Connaught these forty years and more had not washed the Celtic element from his blood, nor the belief in fairies from his soul. The Celtic nature is a fast dye, and Mr. Button's nature was such that though he had been shanghaied by Larry Marr in 'Frisco, though he had got drunk in most ports of the world, though he had sailed with Yankee captains and been man-handled by Yankee mates, he still carried his fairies about with him - they, and a very large stock of original innocence.

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