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Dune Summary

Dune is the story of an "offworld" noble Family. Their world is violently shattered, but their young scion adapts to the ways of his new planet, assumes religious and military leadership, optimizes his powers of prescience to see the plot against him, and utterly defeats his foes.

The Emperor Shaddam IV orders House Atreides from its water-rich ancestral home, Caladan, to the desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Paul Atreides...

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Dune

3,699 words, approx. 13 pages

Dune by Frank Herbert The first novel in a series of five, Dune introduces its readers to the Atreides family and the world of Arrakis. Frank Herbert creates in the Dune novels not merely a fiction... Read more

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Frank Herbert

6,524 words, approx. 22 pages

Biography EssayBorn in Tacoma, Washington, Frank Patrick Herbert is best known as the author of the Dune series. He attended the University of Washington in Seattle (1946-1947), where he later lecture... Read more

Frank Herbert

5,366 words, approx. 18 pages

Paul Atreides, the young renegade Duke, and his mother, Jessica, were fleeing across the desert when they got their first good look at a maker. "Where the dunes began ... a silver-gray curve broached ... Read more

Frank (Patrick) Herbert

3,816 words, approx. 13 pages

Born in Tacoma, Washington, Frank Herbert is best known as the author of the Dune series. He worked for many years as a journalist for West Coast newspapers from San Francisco to Seattle and at a wide... Read more