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Children of Dune Study Guide

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by Frank Herbert
About 106 pages (31,876 words)
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Children of Dune concludes the three-book story of Paul-Muad'Dib Atreides' life. His amazing young son, Leto II, helped by twin daughter Ghanima, surpasses Paul in finding the inner balance and unity of time and space required to lead humanity into a 4,000-year Golden Path of peace and prosperity. Paul's sister, Alia, exposed to the spice melange before birth, succumbs to the possession that she long fights, but which the twins channel adequately.

Stilgar feels responsible for Paul-Muad'Dib Atreides' 9-year-old twins who are discovering their father's powers within themselves. They prepare to launch a "Golden Path." Their Regent, Alia Atreides, is power-hungry and possessed by the evil Baron Harkonnen. On Salusa Secundus, Wensicia, daughter of the ousted Emperor, plots to murder the twins and put her son, Farad'n, on the throne. A blind "Preacher," whom many think is.....

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