Classics: Classic Book Reader

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 that follows along word by word, 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 learning the language.

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

YOURS, OFFLINE AND FREE
Each book downloads the first time you open it — after that, read it on a plane, a train, or a mountaintop. Everything is in the public domain — free, forever.

ON THE SHELF TODAY
More than 40 classics, from philosophy to the great novels — among them:
• Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
• The Odyssey — Homer
• Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
• The Prince — Machiavelli
• The Brothers Karamazov — Dostoevsky
• The Art of War — Sun Tzu
• Dracula — Bram Stoker
• The Confessions — Saint Augustine

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

Open a book. Breathe out.

Recent changes:
Night reading now follows your theme: Silent is dark, Paper and Original are light, and each theme shows a small color swatch. Simpler text-size buttons (A− / A+). Asking for a translation now lives at the end of the Language menu. A reading-plan reminder now shows a dot on the app icon. Poetry keeps natural line endings, with no lone lines at a chapter's end. Words no longer split across a page turn, and furigana and pinyin stay in place when a word wraps.