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.
Great Expectations (Chapter 20).
CHAPTER 21.
Great Expectations (Chapter 21).
CHAPTER 22.
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). John Wemmick’s elderly father (‘Aged P’) describes his surroundings to Pip, who has arrived at Wemmick’s strange hand-built house in Walworth.
CHAPTER 26.
He washed his clients off, as if he were a surgeon or a dentist.
Great Expectations (Chapter 26).
CHAPTER 27.
Great Expectations (Chapter 27).
CHAPTER 28.
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers.
Great Expectations (Chapter 28).
CHAPTER 29.
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.
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.
Great Expectations (Chapter 38).
CHAPTER 39.
I lived rough, that you should live smooth.
Great Expectations (Chapter 39).