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
Great Expectations more consistent with the draft, as well as the natural working out of the tale. Modern literary criticism is split over the matter. Dickens and Wills co-owned "All the Year Round", one 75%, the other 25%. Since Dickens was his own publisher, he did not require a contract for his own works. Although intended for weekly publication, "Great Expectations" was divided into nine monthly sections, with new pagination for each. "Harper's Weekly" published the novel from 24 November 1860 to 5 August 1861 in the US and "All the Year Round" published it from 1 December 1860 to 3 August