Classics – Public Domain Books

The great books, beautifully bound — and finally quiet.

Public Domain Books is a calm, carefully crafted library of the world's timeless classics. No ads. No accounts. No noise. Just the greatest works ever written, typeset with care and ready wherever you are.

READ, OR LISTEN Every book can be read on a warm, paper-like page — or read aloud with natural narration, so you can keep going with your eyes closed.

IN YOUR LANGUAGE Titles and translations across 11 languages — English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Chinese, and Turkish — with furigana over Japanese and pinyin over Chinese, for readers and learners alike.

MADE TO FEEL LIKE A REAL BOOK Leather covers and gold lettering. Three restful themes — Paper, Original, and Quiet. Adjustable type, bookmarks, highlights, and notes. Your place is always saved, and syncs across your devices.

YOURS, OFFLINE AND FREE Download any book and read on a plane, a train, or a mountaintop. Everything is in the public domain — free, forever.

ON THE SHELF TODAY • Meditations — Marcus Aurelius • The Prince — Machiavelli • The Art of War — Sun Tzu • The Book of Five Rings — Miyamoto Musashi • On the Shortness of Life — Seneca • Enchiridion — Epictetus • As a Man Thinketh — James Allen • The Death of Ivan Ilyich — Tolstoy

New titles and translations arrive regularly — and you can request the ones you're missing, right from the app.

Open a book. Breathe out.