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The Duke is a 2020 British comedy drama film directed by Roger Michell, with a screenplay by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman. It is based on the true story of the 1961 theft of the Portrait of the Duke of Wellington by Francisco de Goya. The film stars Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Fionn Whitehead, Anna Maxwell Martin and Matthew Goode. It was ...
William is known in the police force as "The Duke" or simply "Duke", a nickname referring to the Duke of Wellington. [9] Eliza's late father Henry saved William from the London streets after arriving from Glasgow as a child, and later mentored him as he trained as a policeman. As a result, William looked up to Henry as a father figure.
The Heir of Caladan is a science fiction novel by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, set in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. [1] [2] It is the third book in the Caladan Trilogy of prequels. [3]
Duke Leto Atreides travels to Kaitain to gain favor in the Imperium. Count Hasimir Fenring offers to help him influence Emperor Shaddam and elevate House Atreides by adopting Fenring's advice. The aristocrat Lord Atikk invokes kanly (vendetta) against Leto at the imperial court after the death of Atikk's son as a result of the Caladan ailar ...
The passable prose and lackluster plot will limit this one's appeal to diehard fans only." [5] Daniel Matters of Worldly Magazine wrote, "For anyone new to the Dune universe, Dune: The Duke of Caladan is an excellent place to start. Herbert and Anderson’s crisp prose is easy to follow and does just the right amount of world building so that ...
The Duke and I is a 2000 historical romance novel written by Julia Quinn, first published by Avon.It is the first novel of Quinn's series of Regency romances about the Bridgerton siblings and tells the story of Daphne, the fourth child and eldest daughter of the family.
The Duke interrupts them; Christian and Satine claim they were practicing lines for a new show, Bohemian Rhapsody. With Zidler's help, Christian, Satine, Toulouse, and Santiago pitch the show to the Duke with an improvised plot about an evil gangster attempting to woo an ingenue who loves a poor sailor ("So Exciting! (The Pitch Song)").
Dune Messiah is a 1969 science fiction novel by American writer Frank Herbert, the second in his Dune series of six novels. A sequel to Dune (1965), it was originally serialized in Galaxy magazine in 1969, and then published by Putnam the same year.