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Dune Study Guide

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by Frank Herbert
About 117 pages (35,071 words)
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Dune Study Guide consists of approx. 117 pages of summaries and analysis on Dune by Frank Herbert. Browse the literature study guide below:

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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. (read more)
      Book 1 (pgs. 1-46)
      Book 1 (pgs. 47-100)
      Book 1 (pgs. 100-143)
      Book 1 (pgs. 143-183)
      Book 1 (pgs. 183-196)
      Book 2 (pgs. 198-250)
      Book 2 (pgs. 251-283)
      Book 2 (pgs. 283-316)
      Book 2 (pgs. 316-356)
      Book 3 (pgs. 359-402)
      Book 3 (pgs. 403-431)
      Book 3 (pgs. 431-459)
      Book 3 (pgs. 459-483)

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