Oxford World's Classics
Oxford World's Classics names 8 books; ReadingRate holds 7 of them, listed here. The most approachable of them is Satyricon by Petronius (difficulty 46/100, about 2.6 hours); the hardest is The Golden Ass by Apuleius (71/100).
- Emma by Jane Austen (1815) — difficulty 56/100, about 12 hours
- Medea by Euripides (-431) — difficulty 52/100, about 1.6 hours
- Satyricon by Petronius (60) — difficulty 46/100, about 2.6 hours
- The Bacchae by Euripides (-405) — difficulty 46/100, about 1.3 hours
- The Dunciad by Alexander Pope (1728) — difficulty 69/100, about 1.7 hours
- The Golden Ass by Apuleius (170) — difficulty 71/100, about 12 hours
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (2003) — difficulty 68/100, about 8 hours
Questions
- How many books are on Oxford World's Classics?
- 8. ReadingRate holds 7 of them, each with how hard it is to read and how long it takes.
- Which book on Oxford World's Classics is the easiest to read?
- Satyricon by Petronius, difficulty 46/100, about 2.6 hours. The hardest is The Golden Ass by Apuleius, at 71/100.
- How long would it take to read every book on Oxford World's Classics?
- About 38 hours for the 7 books ReadingRate measures, at 250 words a minute adjusted for each book's difficulty: 19 days at two hours a day.
Other lists: Penguin Classics Collection, Penguin Modern Classics, NYRB Classics, Everyman's Library, Library of America, Biblioteca Ayacucho, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Heinemann African Writers Series, UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. All lists.