Dune

Literapedia Book Notes for
=//Dune// by Frank Herbert=

Characters
Book One - DUNE Book Two - MUAD'DIB Book Three - THE PROPHET
 * **Paul Atreides** (ch 1) — son of Duke Leto, Muad'Dib (The One Who Points The Way)
 * **Lady Jessica** (ch 1) — Paul's mother, Duke Leto's concubine
 * **Gaius Helen Mohiam** (ch 1) — a Reverend Mother of the Bene Gesserit and the emperor's truthsayer
 * **Baron Vladimir Harkonnen** (ch 2) — leader of the Harkonnens and sworn enemy of the Atreides house
 * **Feyd Rautha** (ch 2) — Baron Vladimir Harkonnen's nephew
 * **Piter de Vries** (ch 2) — Baron Vladimir Harkonnen's Mentat
 * **Thufir Hawat** (ch 4) — Duke Leto's Mentat Master of Assassins
 * **Gurney Halleck** (ch 4) — Paul's combat teacher, a troubadour warrior
 * **Duncan Idaho** (ch 4) — Paul's weapons teacher, swordmaster of the Ginaz
 * **Dr. Wellington Yueh** (ch 5) — one of Paul's teachers and traitor to the House Atreides
 * **Duke Leto Atreides** (ch 6) — Paul's father
 * **Shadout Mapes** (ch 7) — a Fremen woman, head housekeeper for Lady Jessica
 * **Stilgar** (ch 12) — a Fremen chief
 * **Dr. Liet-Kynes** (ch 15) — planetary ecologist for Arrakis and visionary leader of the Fremen
 * **Rabban Beast** (ch 4) — Baron Vladimir Harkonnen's nephew
 * **Chani** (ch 9) — Liet's daughter and a member of Stilgar's sietch
 * **Jamis** (ch 9) — a member of Stilgar's sietch
 * **Count Hasimir Fenring** (ch 13) — courtier to the Padishah Emperor
 * **Lady Margot Fenring** (ch 13) — courtier to the Padishah Emperor and graduate of the Bene Gesserit school
 * **Harah** (ch 14) — Jamis' wife, for whom Paul takes responsibility after besting Jamis in battle
 * **Kalef** (ch 15) — son of Harah and Geoff (a past husband), age ten
 * **Orlop** (ch 15) — son of Harah and Jamis, age eight
 * **Leto II** (ch 3) — son of Paul and Chani
 * **Alia** (ch 3) — Paul's sister, daughter of Duke Leto and Lady Jessica
 * **Chatt the Leaper** (ch 3) — captain of the Fedaykin, an organization sworn to protect Muad'Dib
 * **Padishah Emperor Saddam IV** (ch 9) — ruler of the Imperium during Paul's lifetime
 * **Princess Irulan** (ch 10) — daughter of the Padishah Emperor

Chapter Summaries
Book One - DUNE Book Two - MUAD'DIB Book Three - THE PROPHET
 * 1) Paul passes the mysterious test of the //gom jabbar//.
 * 2) The Baron Vladimir Harkonnen explains his scheme to seize Arrakis from Duke Leto.
 * 3) The Reverend Mother rebuffs Jessica for bearing a son instead of a daughter, and Paul explains his dream of a strange blue-eyed woman.
 * 4) Paul prepares to leave Caladan and spars with Gurney Halleck.
 * 5) Dr. Yueh presents Paul with the gift of an Orange Catholic Bible.
 * 6) The Duke and Paul discuss dangers the Atreides will face on Arrakis, and Paul agrees to continue with his heretofore secret Mentat training.
 * 7) They arrive on Arrakis. The Lady Jessica passes the Shadout Mapes' test and receives a crysknife.
 * 8) Dr. Yueh completes the next step in his plan of betrayal. He and Lady Jessica discuss life in the service of Duke Leto.
 * 9) Paul escapes an assassination attempt. The Shadout Mapes is aware that the house holds a traitor, but does not know his identity.
 * 10) Lady Jessica, exploring the house, stumbles onto a wet-life conservatory. Inside, she finds a note left by Margot Lady Fenring, warning her of danger to her son's life.
 * 11) Halleck arrives with his final squadron of soldiers and receives orders to recruit veteran spice hunters to work with House Atreides.
 * 12) Duke Leto plans to ally with the Fremen and begin harvesting spice. Meanwhile, a Fremen sacrifices his life to protect the duke and his men.
 * 13) Hawat shows the Duke an intercepted note implicating Lady Jessica as the traitor.
 * 14) The Duke informs Paul of his plan to pretend to distrust Lady Jessica.
 * 15) Dr. Kynes accompanies Paul and the Duke on a trip into the desert, during which he answers their questions about life on Arrakis, the worms, and spice harvesting. They witness a worm attack a spice harvester.
 * 16) At a dinner party hosted by Duke Leto, the important policymakers on Arrakis make fragile alliances. The Duke recovers the lost carry-all from the Harkonnens.
 * 17) A drunken Idaho reveals suspicions about Lady Jessica's loyalties, and she privately reflects on her pregnancy.
 * 18) After finding the dying Shadout Mapes, Duke Leto is attacked by Yueh and becomes a weapon to kill the Baron.
 * 19) Paul and Lady Jessica awake in the Baron's captivity and escape, pursued by Harkonnens.
 * 20) Dr. Yueh reveals that despite his treachery against the Duke, he has assigned Duncan Idaho to save Paul and Lady Jessica.
 * 21) The Baron kills Yueh. The Duke activates a poison capsule installed by the doctor, killing himself and Piter de Vries.
 * 22) As he and his mother hide in the desert, Paul has his first taste of prescience as the Lisan al-Gaib and realizes that his mother is daughter to the Baron.
 * 1) As Paul and his mother seek shelter, they witness the Harkonnen efforts to exterminate the Atreides across Arrakis.
 * 2) Hawat and his few remaining soldiers join a band of Fremen for protection and are ambushed by Sardaukar.
 * 3) Idaho and Kynes rescue Paul and Lady Jessica out of the desert. When the Sardaukar track them down, Paul and Lady Jessica escape in a 'thopter into a sandstorm.
 * 4) The Baron, believing Paul and Lady Jessica are dead, plans to convert the captured Hawat and install Rabban Beast as ruler of Arrakis.
 * 5) Paul and Lady Jessica escape the sandstorm and take cover in a small cave, almost losing their suplies in a sandslide.
 * 6) Gurney Halleck, thinking Paul and Duke Leto are dead, pledges his sword to the smuggler Staban Tuek.
 * 7) As Paul and Lady Jessica continue searching for Fremen in the desert, they narrowly escape a worm attack. They are ambushed by water-seeking Fremen.
 * 8) Abandoned in the desert by Harkonnens, Kynes has delirious visions of his father before being killed by an explosion of underground gases.
 * 9) Paul and Lady Jessica prove their worth to a Fremen tribe, which promises protection in exchange.
 * 10) As Paul and Jessica take shelter with Stilgar's sietch, Jessica fulfills an ancient Fremen prophecy about the Lisan al-Gaib, and Paul gets another taste of his spice-induced prescience.
 * 11) By besting Jamis in his tahaddi-challenge to the death, Paul earns himself the private tribe name Usul and chooses the public alias Paul-Muad'Dib.
 * 12) During Jamis' funeral ceremony, Stilgar shows Paul and Jessica a vast store of Fremen water and explains Liet's plan to eventually remake Ararakis as a water-rich planet.
 * 13) Feyd-Rautha wins an apparently rigged battle against a slave-gladiator, but the Count and Lady Fenring realize the fight was a premeditated act to win the respect of the inhabitants of Giedi Prime.
 * 14) Paul accepts responsibility for Jamis' wife and children as a result of winning the tahaddi-challenge.
 * 15) Jessica becomes a Reverend Mother among the Fremen and Paul, in another bout of prescience, sees himself and Chani together for the rest of their lives.
 * 1) The Baron escapes an assassination attempt orchestrated by Feyd-Rautha.
 * 2) Thufir Hawat helps the Baron plan to retake control of Arrakis.
 * 3) To truly become a Fremen, Paul prepares to ride a "maker."
 * 4) Alia explains how she became a Reverend Mother when Jessica changed the Water of Life. Tharthar reports that the tribe has decreed Paul must call out Stilgar and take command.
 * 5) Paul successfully rides a worm and narrowly escapes a scouting 'thopter.
 * 6) Gurney and his smugglers walk into an ambush set by Paul and the Fremen. Once captured, the Sardaukar among the smugglers reveal themseles, but Paul allows them to live.
 * 7) Paul eschews tradition and refuses to call out Stilgar, then convinces Gurney that Jessica was not the traitor. Later, he drinks the Water of Life.
 * 8) Three weeks later, Chani arrives and pulls him out of his coma for him to reveal that the planet is surrounded by Imperial forces.
 * 9) Paul holds off the fleet by threatening to destroy the spice. He receives a message that his son is dead and Alia has been taken captive.
 * 10) Alia escapes as the Emperor comes under attack by the Fremen.
 * 11) After killing Feyd-Rautha in a duel, Paul promises to marry Princess Irulan to unite the Great Houses of the Landsraad.

Book Note Creator
Doc McConnell, '08