The complete online text of Elissa by H. Rider Haggard.

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was not a great artist in anyone's estimation, least of all his own. Still less was he a great writer of short fiction; one seeks in vain for his name in critical surveys of the short story of the nineteenth or early twentieth cen...

A man of diverse talents and a writer eager to try his skills at many different kinds of writing projects, both nonfiction and fiction, H. Rider Haggard is best remembered by general readers of fantasy for his fourth and fifth books, King Solomon's Mines...

Henry Rider Haggard, K.B.E., wrote tales of romantic adventure which may be termed "mysteries" only in a nonconventional sense of the term. The reader encounters no Poirots, no Lord Peter Wimseys, no clues; and while there are murders aplenty, they are n...

Elsa Kaisa (Elissa) Makiniemi, architect: born Kemi, Finland 22 November 1922; married 1952 Alvar Aalto (died 1976); died Helsinki 12 April 1994. ELISSA AALTO was the wife and partner of the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. After 1949 she assisted in all competition projects...

Elissa Williams A Mass of Christian Burial for Mrs. Elissa Williams (nee Ianno), 37, will be celebrated at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, at Sts. Peter & Paul Church, 36 N. Ellsworth, Naperville. She went to be with our Lord and her beloved mother...

Elissa Cadish, a shareholder of Hale Lane Peek Dennison and Howard, was appointed District Court judge in Nevada 's 8th Judicial District, Department 6, Gov. Jim Gibbons announced last week.She replaces Judge Joseph Bonaventure , who retired from the bench. Cadish 's Las Vegas...

Attorneys for a polygamous sect leader convicted of rape by accomplice are asking a judge to set aside the jury's verdict, saying the evidence was insufficient and circumstantial at best."We think it's the wrong result," Wally Bugden told The Associated Press."Performing a marriage ceremony, urging...