Bibliograph

Dune, House Atreides., Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson

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Label

Dune, House Atreides., Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson

Language

eng

Illustrations

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Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Dune, House Atreides.

Oclc number

1145241219

Responsibility statement

Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson

Series statement

Dune: House Atreides Ser

Summary

Before Paul Atreides became Muad'Dib, the dynamic leader who unified the wild Fremen on the desert planet known as Dune...Before the evil Baron Harkonnen overthrew House Atreides and sent Paul and his mother, Jessica, fleeing into the deadly wasteland of sand...Before the secrets of the spice and the sandworms were discovered...There was another story...The tale of young Leto Atreides learning to become a ruler in the shadow of his great father. The tale of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, ruthless tyrant who becomes a pawn of Bene Gesserit breeding schemes. The tale of Pardot Kynes, ambitious planetologist dispatched to the sands of Arrakis to understand the origins of the spice melange, the most valuable substance in the known universe. And the tale of Crown Prince Shaddam Corrino, whose lust for power leads him to plot the assassination of his own father and to create a plan that will replace the spice and disrupt the Imperium forever..

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

House Atreides

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