Great Expectations was first published as a serial in Charles Dickens’ weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861 in 59 chapters. In October 1861, Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes. Volume 1 contained chapters 1-19. Volume 2 contained chapters 20-39. Volume 3 contained chapters 40-59.

These are the links to read chapters within Volume 2 of Great Expectations:

CHAPTER 20.

While I was scared by the immensity of London, I think I might have had some faint doubts whether it was not rather ugly, crooked, narrow, and dirty.

Great Expectations (Chapter 20).

CHAPTER 21.

A dry man, rather short in stature, with a square wooden face, whose expression seemed to have been imperfectly chipped out with a dull-edged chisel.

Great Expectations (Chapter 21).

CHAPTER 22.

No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

Great Expectations (Chapter 22).

CHAPTER 23.

CHAPTER 24.

My guiding-star always is, ‘Get hold of portable property’.

Great Expectations (Chapter 24).

CHAPTER 25.

This is a pretty pleasure-ground.

Great Expectations (Chapter 25).

CHAPTER 26.

He washed his clients off, as if he were a surgeon or a dentist.

Great Expectations (Chapter 26).

CHAPTER 27.

Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Great Expectations (Chapter 27).

CHAPTER 28.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers.

Great Expectations (Chapter 28).

CHAPTER 29.

In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.

Great Expectations (Chapter 29).

CHAPTER 30.

CHAPTER 31.

CHAPTER 32.

CHAPTER 33.

You may be certain that I laugh because they fail.

Great Expectations (Chapter 33).

CHAPTER 34.

We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did.

Great Expectations (Chapter 34).

CHAPTER 35.

CHAPTER 36.

CHAPTER 37.

I wished my own good fortune to reflect some rays upon him.

Great Expectations (Chapter 37).

CHAPTER 38.

I never had one hour’s happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

Great Expectations (Chapter 38).

CHAPTER 39.

I lived rough, that you should live smooth.

Great Expectations (Chapter 39).