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The Republic
Plato · translated by Benjamin Jowett
Plato’s dialogue on justice and the ideal state, home of the philosopher-king and the allegory of the cave.
First published c. 375 BCE · 218,000 words · about 15 hours to read · 642 pages at 10.3″
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All files
- EPUB 0.6 MB, any e-reader or reading app
- PDF, 10.3″ and larger, with notes margin 642 pages, 3 MB
- PDF, 10.3″ and larger, without notes margin 621 pages, 3 MB
- PDF, 7–8″, with notes margin 844 pages, 4 MB
- PDF, 7–8″, without notes margin 739 pages, 3 MB
- PDF, 7.3″ tall, with notes margin 835 pages, 3 MB
- PDF, 7.3″ tall, without notes margin 814 pages, 3 MB
The Margin edition
The PDF is laid out for your screen’s real size, so nothing is scaled or cropped. Choose a dotted outside margin on every page for handwritten notes, or even margins for reading edge to edge. Chapters are bookmarked and linked from the contents.
Getting it onto your device
E-readers: see the guides for Xteink, Kindle, Kobo and others. Writing tablets: copy the PDF across the same way as a template, as described in our install guides.
About this edition
The text is from a public-domain transcription by Project Gutenberg volunteers. The cover, the EPUB edition and the PDF typesetting are ours, and free to share.
Reading The Republic? Take notes properly
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