Other 19th-century novels: The Sign of Four, Silas Marner, The War of the Worlds

By the end you’ll be able to

• The Sign of Four (AQA): analyse Holmes and Watson, Mary Morstan, Jonathan Small and the Agra treasure, detective-fiction conventions, and empire and “otherness”
• Silas Marner (Edexcel, Eduqas): analyse Silas’s isolation and redemption through Eppie, Godfrey Cass, the community of Raveloe, and faith and industrialisation