Two masterworks of English literature will be presented by Richard Fadem in an eight-week class beginning Wednesday, Feb. 24 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Parish Hall.

A fee of $20 will be collected at the first class. All are welcome.

The class will begin with the novel “Mansfield Park” by Jane Austen followed by Anthony Trollope’s novel, “The Way We Live Now.” The books are available at Darvill’s.

The first three weeks will be spent on Jane Austen’s most complex – and for some, her finest – novel, “Mansfield Park” (1814), in which she abandons the two and a half inch piece of ivory on which she claimed to etch her other works for a broader canvas.

The class will spend five weeks with Anthony Trollope’s “The Way We Live Now” (1875), perhaps his greatest novel out of a staggering number, and one which tells a story of financial chicanery, self-indulgence, and greed, both cunning and stupid, extending into the U.S.