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The Dragon in the Sea by Frank Herbert

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Author Biography

Name: Frank Herbert
Birth Date: 8 October 1920
Death Date: - 11 February 1986

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Biography of Frank Herbert
6495 words, approx. 21.7 pages
Born 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 lectured (1970-1972), and worked for many years as a journalist for West Coa...
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Biography of Frank Herbert
5364 words, approx. 17.9 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 from the desert, sending rivers of sand and dust casca...
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Biography of Frank (Patrick) Herbert
3818 words, approx. 12.7 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 range of other jobs, of which his experiences in the...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Dragon in the Sea Information
483 words, approx. 2 pages
<i>The Dragon in the Sea</i> (also known as <i>Under Pressure</i> from its serialization) is a novel by Frank Herbert. It was first serialized in <i>Astounding</i> magazine from 1955 to 1956, then reworked[1] and published as a book in 1956. It is...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by J. Frances Mccomas
139 words, approx. 1 pages
["The Dragon in the Sea"] is a sea story of an imaginary war that comes very close to matching—in suspense, action and psychic strain—any chronicle of real war by C. S. Forester or Herman Wouk. Frank Herbert writes of the next war, a conflict wherein the "curtains" are so impenetrable that the only theatre of action is under the sea. In marvelously convincing fashion, he tells the grim saga of a "subtug," venturing across the Atlantic to raid the enemy...


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