Mary Shelley evening, the discussions turned to the nature of the principle of life. "Perhaps a corpse would be re-animated", Mary noted, "galvanism had given token of such things". It was after midnight before they retired, and unable to sleep, she became possessed by her imagination as she beheld the "grim terrors" of her "waking dream", her ghost story: She began writing what she assumed would be a short story. With Percy Shelley's encouragement, she expanded this tale into her first novel, "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus", published in 1818. She later described that summer in Switzerland as the moment "when I
The Famous Five (novel series) Blyton's birth with the title "The Famous Five" and later released on DVD as "The Famous Five – Smuggler's Gold – The Musical". Principal actors: Elizabeth Marsland, Lyndon Ogbourne, Matthew Johnson, Vicky Taylor, Jon Lee, Director: Roz Storey and also in the five A brand new musical adaptation was premièred at the Tabard Theatre on 8 December 2009 and played until 10 January 2010. Two sets of gamebooks in a "Choose Your Own Adventure" style have been published. These books involve reading small sections of print and being given two or more options to follow, with a different page number