Taormina
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Travel readers interested in Sicily and the history and sights of Taormina
- Students of Italian history and geography, and readers interested in non-English European writing
- Readers with some Dutch who want practice reading historical texts
- Readers who like free public-domain ebooks and are willing to read with translation tools
Not a good fit for
- Contemporary travelers seeking practical transport and accommodation information
- Readers with no Dutch at all who do not intend to use translation tools
- Researchers expecting a systematic general history or scholarly inquiry
Reading tips
- First consult maps of Taormina and material on the Greek theatre ruins to build a sense of space before entering the text.
- If you do not read Dutch, read through with machine translation first, then check place names and personal names against key words and sentences in the original.
- Read the descriptions alongside photographs of the city today, noting what has changed and what has not over more than a century.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Johanna G. Lugt is an author about whom very little public information is available; her representative work, as far as can be confirmed, is Taormina. Since her dates of birth and death, nationality, and common subject categories are not clearly recorded, it is difficult to discuss her life or the development of her writing, and only a cautious introduction based on the existing clues is possible. The title Taormina points to the town on the eastern coast of Sicily, Italy, known for its ancient Greek theatre, its scenery of sea and mountains, and a long tradition of tourism; the work may therefore relate to the local landscape, history, or travel writing, though its precise genre and contents remain to be verified. Only one of her works is held in the collection, which suggests that her writing remains unfamiliar. Readers may treat the book as a window onto Taormina, while researchers should keep an open mind and wait for further bibliographic information before judging her style and influence.
