Tier-Ranking EVERYTHING I Read In First Year!! (40+ books) || thepretentiouspoet

I wore a suit so that I could look like an award presenter and then spent the entire video regretting it because England has just discovered what summer is. I am melting.

This video was so much fun to film and edit, so I really hope you enjoyed this method of reviewing the texts I read for the first year of my English Literature degree! Very tempted to make this a yearly tradition until I graduate because it was such a good way to discuss these texts with my friends and also get that digital content from it afterwards.

I am moving back home tomorrow, which is very bittersweet. I have to move out of my lovely shared room which I won't return to, so I'm mourning that while also being thrilled to have several months at home with no obligations before my degree actually starts to matter. Prepare for me to be reading a lot and subsequently having plenty to talk about!

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As promised, here are links to everything that I read! There were just a few things that I read from my very expensive textbooks or via university downloads, but everything else was almost exclusively from archive.org. Enjoy!
Moll Flanders: https://freeclassicebooks.com/2019%20...
Arthurian Romances: https://archive.org/details/arthurian...
Emma, digital text: https://freeclassicebooks.com/2019%20...
Emma, audiobook:    • Emma Audiobook  
Lanval and Sir Launfal (Lanval is Appendix B): https://archive.org/details/middleeng...
Hamlet: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/ful...
The Wife's Lament, The Wanderer, etc.: https://archive.org/details/choiceofa...
Sir Orfeo: https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/tex...
Jane Eyre, digital text: https://freeclassicebooks.com/2019%20...
Jane Eyre, audiobook:    • Jane Eyre Audiobook  
The Rover: https://olli.gmu.edu/docstore/400docs...
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: https://archive.org/details/sirgawain...
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer (in original Middle English): https://archive.org/details/riverside...
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer (in modern English): https://reflection.eleusinianm.co.uk/...
The Iliad by Homer: https://archive.org/details/iliadfagl...
Paradise Lost by Milton: https://milton.host.dartmouth.edu/rea...
Heart of Darkness by Conrad: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/219/2...
The Cenci by Shelley: https://archive.org/details/cencitrag...
Oedipus the King by Sophocles: https://archive.org/details/threetheb...
Pygmalion by Shaw: https://archive.org/details/pygmalion...
Death of a Salesman by Miller: https://archive.org/details/deathofsa...
A Raisin in the Sun by Hansberry: https://archive.org/details/raisinins...
The Aeneid by Virgil: https://archive.org/details/aeneid000...
Wide Sargasso Sea by Rhys: https://www.pdfdrive.com/wide-sargass...
Midnight's Children, digital text: https://archive.org/details/midnights...
Midnight's Children, audiobook:    • Плейлист  
Saga of Gisli Sursson: http://www.vsnrweb-publications.org.u...
Aristotle's Poetics: https://archive.org/details/classical...
Top Girls: https://archive.org/details/topgirls0...
The Song of Roland: https://archive.org/details/songofrol...
Angels in America: https://archive.org/details/angelsina...
And the National Theatre recording: https://archive.org/details/angels-in...
Metamorphoses: https://archive.org/details/metamorph...
Le Morte D'Arthur: https://archive.org/details/lemorteda...
In Cold Blood, digital text: https://archive.org/details/incoldblo...
In Cold Blood, audiobook (note: this book contains racial slurs that are read aloud by a white narrator):    • In Cold Blood  
Watchmen: https://archive.org/details/Watchmen1...

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