Dune Summary
Frank Herbert

Everything you need to understand or teach Dune by Frank Herbert.

  • Dune Summary & Study Guide
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  • 15 Literature Criticisms
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  • 30 Dune Lessons
  • 20 Activities
  • 180 Multiple Choice Questions
  • 60 Short Essay Questions
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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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