Richard Fadem will offer a literature class this fall focusing on the novel “Daniel Deronda” by George Eliot. The class will meet on Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Orcas Senior Center from Sept. 30 to Nov. 18. The class will use the Oxford World Classics edition, available at Darvill’s.

Registration will begin after Labor Day at the senior center. The fee is $25, payable by check to Ruthie Newman at the first class. As always, any surplus will be donated to the high school’s college scholarship or English program.

“George Eliot is a great English writer and in the 19th century second as a novelist only to Dickens,” Fadem said. “But as a novelist she is very nearly unique because she is, first of all, an intellectual who happens also to be a superb imaginative writer. Her thought as much as her imagination permeates her fiction … ‘Daniel Deronda’ is the first English novel by a major novelist that has a Jewish protagonist. The novel takes place during two years, 1864 to 66, a momentous time that includes the end of the American Civil War and, under Bismarck, Germany’s expansionism and demonstration of military and industrial strength.”