Author:ROBERT PAYNE

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Forty Stories

By: ANTON PAVLOVICH CHEKHOV, ROBERT PAYNE

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Random House Inc: March 1991

Seller ID: 171941

ISBN: 0679733752

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

If any writer can be said to have invented the modern short story, it is Anton Chekhov. It is not just that Chekhov democratized this art form; more than that, he changed the thrust of short fiction from relating to revealing. And what marvelous and unbearable things are revealed in these Forty Stories. The abashed happiness of a woman in the presence of the husband who abandoned her years before. The obsequious terror of the official who accidentally sneezes on a general. The poignant astonishment of an aging Don Juan overtaken by love. Spanning the entirety of Chekhov's career and including ...
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Forty Stories

By: CHEKHOV, ANTON PAVLOVICH, PAYNE, ROBERT

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Random House Inc: March 1991

Seller ID: 163083

ISBN: 0679733752

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The Holy Fire: The Story of the Early Centuries of the Christian Church in the Near East

By: PAYNE, ROBERT

Price: $26.00

Publisher: St. Vladimirs Seminary Press: March 1997

Seller ID: 182442

ISBN: 0913836613

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Robert Payne seems to have been the Paul Johnson of a generation ago, his many books ranging from a sort of patristics, like this book, to histories of the Crusades and Islam, and biographies of Hitler and Gandhi. His style is popular, brisk, and colorful, yet his familiarity with the writings of the Fathers is unmistakable, and one cannot help but get a real sympathetic insight into the personalities and achievements of the critically important figures he examines, which include Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Athanasius, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory Nazianzen, John Chrysostom, D...
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The Splendor of Greece

By: ROBERT PAYNE

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Harper: March 1960

Seller ID: 20080328137566

ISBN: B0007DR7W4

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Used - good. First edition hardcover. Ex library with usual markings; pen mark/stain on upper page block; a nice solid copy, very clean overall. Dustjacket good with some water stain marks, mylar cover. 200 pp.
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A portrait of Andre Malraux

By: ROBERT PAYNE

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Prentice-Hall: 1970-01-01

Seller ID: 20080410138221

ISBN: 0136859666

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Used - good. Ex library with usual markings, clean & solid. Dustjacket good with mylar cover.
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The Life and Death of Lenin

By: ROBERT PAYNE

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: June 1964

Seller ID: 20080608142498

ISBN: B000NWOL9G

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Good, clean hardcover, no jacket. Expected scuffing to extremities of covers, text clean.
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The Lord Jesus: A Novel

By: Robert Payne

Price: $7.85

Publisher: Aberland-Schuman: January 1964

Seller ID: 20081017148611

ISBN: B000K0H3LE

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Good, no jacket. Boards lightly rubbed, previous owner inscription, a clean, solid copy. 314 pp.
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Dream and the Tomb : A History of the Crusades

By: ROBERT PAYNE

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Natl Book Network: November 2000

Seller ID: 20091121164940

ISBN: 0815410867

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Like New

As new, laminate slightly loosened at corners.
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Torrents of spring,

By: Robert Payne

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Dodd, Mead and company: December 1945

Seller ID: 139422

ISBN: B0007E9CVW

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Light cover wear includes fading along front cover foredge. Firm binding, unmarked text.
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Rome Triumphant

By: Robert Payne

Price: $14.95

Publisher: May 1994

Seller ID: 147737

ISBN: 1566191300

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Dream and the Tomb : A History of the Crusades

By: ROBERT PAYNE

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Natl Book Network: November 2000

Seller ID: 171989

ISBN: 0815410867

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

This is a comprehensive account of the eight religious wars between the Christian West and the Muslim East that dominated the Middle Ages. Calling themselves "pilgrims of Christ," thousands of Europeans from all stations in life undertook the harsh and bloody quest to reclaim Jerusalem, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, and Christ's tomb for Christendom. Robert Payne brings to life every step of the Crusaders' thousand-mile journey: the deprivation; the desperate, rapacious, and brutal raids for food and supplies; the epic battles for Antioch, Jerusalem, and Acre; the barbarous treatment of ca...
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Ivan the Terrible

By: Robert Payne

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Cooper Square Press: December 2002

Seller ID: 171990

ISBN: 0815412290

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Czar Ivan IV (1530-1584), the first Russian ruler to take the title czar, is known as one of the worst tyrants in history, but few people among the general public know how he got such an infamous reputation. Relying on extensive research based heavily on original Russian sources, this definitive biography depicts an incredibly complex man living in a time of simple, harsh realities. Robert Payne, the distinguished author of many historical and biographical works, and Russian scholar Nikita Romanoff, describe in vivid and lively detail Ivan's callous upbringing; the poisoning of his second wife...
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Author:ROBERT PAYNE