Gerald Charles Dickens (actor) his own British and American tours, Gerald Dickens performs extracts from "The Pickwick Papers", "David Copperfield", "Oliver Twist", "Great Expectations", "Nicholas Nickleby" and "A Christmas Carol" among others, in the latter creating 26 characters in a performance described by "The New York Times" as "a once in a lifetime brush with literary history." Dickens has recorded unabridged audiobooks of "The Pickwick Papers" and "Nicholas Nickleby". In December 2011 he appeared on the BBC's "Songs of Praise". A keen golfer, he wrote and performs the two-act play "Top Hole!", based on four golfing stories by P. G. Wodehouse. In 2015 at
Gateway to the Great Books Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Albert Einstein and John Dewey. The set included an index similar to the "Great Books"' "Syntopicon", along with reading plans of increasing difficulty. Hutchins contributed an introduction that was essentially a boiled-down version of the "Great Conversation", his preface to the "Great Books". The set contained biographical notes on the various authors, similar to those in the "Great Books". However, the set also contained editorial introductions to the selections, which were generally not included in the "Great Books". In another departure from the "Great Books" series, the set included black-and-white drawings of most of the authors by