Lost Treasure. The Romances of Henry De Vere Stacpoole

The Blue Lagoon (1908): In recent years, this tale has re-appeared, in the movies, three times, at the rate of about once a decade. This story poses the possibility of modern children spontaneously returning to the lost innocence of the Garden of Eden. Perhaps this is the most irretrievably lost treasure of all. Such a resonant theme left its author in highly civilised comfort for the rest of his life. It is doubtful how much it did for his reputation as a writer.
The trouble with the mass medium of the movies is that subjective narrative is lost to objective on-looking, that I quickly found unwatchable. These romantic films don't convey the authors narrative skill. The authors name is a scarce foot-note on the credits.
Arnold Bennett suggested perhaps it was the book of 1908. The commentary of the author is that of a doctor, a classic recorder of events, objective, unsentimental, unsensational, timeless. He allows himself a mild irony, not imposed on the reader, as the childrens alcoholic guardian gets his wish.
Eventually, The Blue Lagoon was made into a play. Whereupon, a voyager, in the audience, had the uncanny experience of the scene of the play duplicating the circumstances of his own alighting on a desert island. Stacpoole relates this remarkable coincidence in his autobiography. Anyway, Stacpoole is one of those authors who is better known by a title, The Blue Lagoon, than as a name.