Glyn Hughes' SQUASHED WRITERS ALL THE BOOKS YOU THINK YOU OUGHT TO HAVE READ In their own words... but magically Squashed into half-hour short stories...

Many of these abridgements have been prepared especially for the 'Squashed' pages, others are from the collections edited by Arthur Mee or John Hammerton in the early years of the 20th century. But all of them are forever being reviewed an updated- if you find an error or omission, do email.

48BC Commentaries on the Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar
43BC The Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero
93AD The Autobiography of Flavius Josephus
100AD Letters of Pliny the Younger
125AD The Golden Ass by Apuleius
1128 The Love-Letters of Abélard and Héloise
1298 The Travels of Marco Polo as told to Rustichiano of Pisa
1350 The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
1469 Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
1533 Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
1533 Lazarillo de Tormes by Don Diego Hurtado de Mendoza
1537 Table Talk by Martin Luther
1558 Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
1578 Arcadia by Sir Philip Sidney
1589 The Principall Navigations of the English Nation by Richard Hakluyt
1604 Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
1625 Purchas, his Pilgrimage by Samuel Purchas
1647 A Voyage to the Moon by Cyrano de Bergerac
1666 Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners by John Bunyan
1666 Oroonoko the Royal Slave by Aphra Behn
1669 Diary of Samuel Pepys
1672 Memoirs by Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld
1678 The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan
1682 The Holy War by John Bunyan
1694 My Journal by George Fox
1697 A New Voyage Round The World by William Dampier
1699 Diary of John Evelyn
1704 The Arabian Nights by Antoine Galland
1713 Memoirs of the Count de Grammont by Antony Hamilton
1719 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
1720 Captain Singleton by Daniel Defoe
1726 Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift
1730 Gil Blas by Alain-Rene LeSage.
1733 Philosophic Letters on the English by François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
1740 Pamela by Samuel Richardson
1740 Political Testament by Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu
1742 Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
1743 Jonathan Wild by Henry Fielding
1747 Clarissa Harlowe by Samuel Richardson
1748 The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett
1749 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
1751 Amelia by Henry Fielding
1751 Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett
1753 Sir Charles Grandison by Samuel Richardson
1754 Journal by John Woolman
1755 Memoirs by Marguerite Jeanne de Launay, Baronne de Staal
1757 Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
1759 Rasselas Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson
1760 The New Heloise by Jean Jacques Rousseau
1764 The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
1766 Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift
1766 The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
1768 A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne
1771 Letters by Thomas Gray
1772 The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1773 A Voyage to the Isle of France by Bernardin De Saint Pierre
1774 Letters to His Son by Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield
1778 Evelina by Fanny Burney
1782 Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1784 Voyages of Discovery by Captain James Cook
1787 Travels in France by Arthur Young
1787 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
1788 The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell
1789 Sandford and Merton by Thomas Day
1790 Letters by William Cowper
1790 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
1790 Journal by John Wesley
1794 A Journey Round My Room by Count Xavier de Maistre
1794 Caleb Williams by William Godwin
1794 Hesperus by Jean Paul Richter
1796 Memoirs by Edward Gibbon
1796 Wilhelm Meisters by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1797 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
1797 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
1798 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1801 Titan by Jean Paul Richter
1803 Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
1806 Memoirs From Beyond the Grave by François-René de Chateaubriand
1808 Poetry and Truth from My Own Life by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1811 A Tour in Lapland by Carl Linnaeus
1813 The Life of Nelson by Robert Southey
1814 Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
1814 Undine by Friedrich Fouque
1815 Emma by Jane Austen
1816 Headlong Hall by Thomas Love Peacock
1816 Old Mortality by Sir Walter Scott
1816 Persuasion by Jane Austen
1816 The Antiquary by Sir Walter Scott
1817 Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1817 Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
1818 Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1818 Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock
1818 The Heart of Midlothian by Sir Walter Scott
1819 Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott
1819 Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
1820 Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin
1821 Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott
1821 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey
1823 Peveril of the Peak by Sir Walter Scott
1823 Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott
1824 The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott
1826 The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
1826 The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper
1828 Life of Christopher Columbus by Washington Irving
1828 The Life of Robert Burns by John Gibson Lockhart
1829 The Collegians by Gerald Griffin
1830 The Life of Byron by Thomas Moore
1830 The Improvisatore by Hans Christaian Andersen
1830 Rural Rides by William Cobbett
1831 Life of Sir Isaac Newton by Sir David Brewster
1831 Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
1831 The Captain's Daughter by Alexander Sergeyevitch Pushkin
1831 The Magic Skin by Honoré de Balzac
1832 Eugene Aram by Edward Bulwer Lytton
1832 Henry Masterton by GPR James
1832 Our Village by Mary Russell Mitford
1833 Letters to Zelter by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1833 Peter Simple by Frederick Marryat
1833 Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
1834 Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
1834 Memoirs of Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau
1834 The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer Lytton
1834 The Quest of the Absolute by Honoré de Balzac
1835 A Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah by Sir Richard Burton
1836 Mr Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat
1837 Mauprat by George Sand
1837 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
1838 Life of Sir Walter Scott by John Gibson Lockhart
1839 Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
1840 Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
1840 Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
1843 Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
1843 The Last of the Barons by Edward Bulwer Lytton
1843 The Bible in Spain by George Borrow
1844 Eothen by Alexander William Kinglake
1844 Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli
1844 Consuelo by George Sand
1844 Life of Queen Elizabeth by Agnes Strickland
1844 Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
1844 The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
1845 The Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell by Thomas Carlyle
1845 Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas
1845 Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli
1845 The Corsican Brothers by Alexandre Dumas
1845 Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas
1846 Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
1847 Carmen by Prosper Mérimée
1847 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
1847 Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
1847 Tancred by Benjamin Disraeli
1847 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
1848 Conversations with Eckermann by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1848 Life of Goldsmith by John Forster
1848 Mary Barton by Mrs. Gaskell
1848 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
1849 Alton Locke Tailor and Poet by Charles Kingsley
1849 Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
1849 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
1850 The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
1851 Lavengro by George Borrow
1851 The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1852 Anna Karenina by Count Leo Tolstoy
1852 Bleak House by Charles Dickens
1852 Memoirs by Alexandre Dumas père
1852 Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
1853 Bothwell by James Grant
1853 Cranford by Mrs. Gaskell
1853 Hypatia by Charles Kingsley
1853 Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro by Alfred Russel Wallace
1853 Verdant Green by Edward Bradley
1853 Villette by Charlotte Bronte
1854 Hard Times by Charles Dickens
1854 Tower of London by Harrison Ainsworth
1855 Childhood, Boyhood & Youth by Count Leo Tolstoy
1855 Life of George Washington by Washington Irving
1855 The Newcomes by William Makepeace Thackeray
1855 The Warden by Anthony Trollope
1855 Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley
1856 Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
1856 The King of the Mountains by Edmond About
1857 The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Stevenson (Mrs. Gaskell)
1857 Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
1857 The Romany Rye by George Borrow
1857 Tom Browns Schooldays by Thomas Hughes
1857 Two Years Ago by Charles Kingsley
1858 Adam Bede by George Eliot
1858 A Nest of Nobles by Ivan Sergeyvitch Turgenev
1858 Smoke by Ivan Sergeyvitch Turgenev
1859 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
1859 Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
1859 The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray
1860 Autobiography by Alexander Carlyle
1860 Silas Marner by George Eliot
1860 The Household of Sir Thomas More by Anne Manning
1860 The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
1860 The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
1861 Elsie Venner by Oliver Wendell Holmes
1861 Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeyvitch Turgenev
1861 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
1861 Equatorial Africa by Paul du Chaillu
1861 The Life of William Pitt by Philip Henry Stanhope
1861 On the Height by Berthold Auerbach
1861 Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes
1862 Lady Audleys Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
1862 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
1862 No Name by Wilkie Collins
1863 Our Old Home by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1863 Life and Times of St. Bernard by J.A.C. Morison
1863 Romola by George Eliot
1863 A Walk Across Africa by James Augustus Grant
1863 Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
1864 Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
1864 Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu
1865 Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
1866 Felix Holt by George Eliot
1866 Hereward the Wake by Charles Kingsley
1866 John Halifax by Dinah Maria Mulock
1866 The Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
1869 Lorna Doone by RD Blackmore
1869 The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
1869 Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
1871 A Daughter of Heth by William Black
1871 The Life of Thomas Arnold, D.D. by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
1872 Tartarin of Tarascon by Alphonse Daudet
1873 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
1875 Deeds and Words by Victor Hugo
1876 Helen's Babies by John Habberton
1876 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1876 Shadow of the Sword by Robert Buchanan
1877 L'Assommoir by Émile Zola
1877 Samuel Brohl by Charles Victor Cherbuliez
1881 Life of Richard Cobden by John, Lord Morley
1882 Fragments of an Intimate Diary by Henri Frédéric Amiel
1884 The Way of the World by David Christie Murray
1888 Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
1891 The Life of Girolamo Savonarola by Pasquale Villari
1892 The Naturalist in La Plata by William Henry Hudson
1892 My Confession by Count Leo Tolstoy
1894 The Desert by Pierre Loti
1896 The Courtships of Elizabeth by Martin Andrew Hume
1897 The Death of the Gods by Dmitri Merejkowski
1897 Timbuctoo the Mysterious by Felix Dubois
1903 The Love Affairs of Mary Queen of Scots by Martin Andrew Hume
1904 A Man of Gold by Maurus Jokai
1905 The Garden of Allah by Robert Smythe Hichens
1915 Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

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