Elissa, or The Doom of Zimbabwe

Description

The famous ruins in Zimbabwe suggested this story to Haggard, in which he makes this “lost city” the Biblical Ophir, said to have fallen because of the wickedness of its religion and people. As always, a rousing story in Haggard’s finest style.

Haggard’s storylines are most evocative when they turn their back on the bluster and regalia of empire and move into the unknown, the lost, the Heart of Darkness, the eternally recurring.” —The Encyclopedia of Fantasy