The book opens with a vision of Yahweh, God of Israel ; moves on to anticipate the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple, explains this as Yahweh's punishment, and closes with the promise of a new beginning and a new Temple.

The book closes abruptly () with an epistolary warning based on the emblematic trope of a fast growing vine present in Persian narratives, and popularized in certain collections of Aesop's fables such as The Gourd and the Palm-tree during the Renaissance, for example by Andrea Alciato.

As the first book closes, Paul has triumphed.

* Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale closes with a chapter set at a conference taking place some time after the events of the rest of the book, in which scholars question the authenticity of the earlier manuscript.

Finally, Spider-Man's hand closes the comic book.

The book closes with a letter written by a woman in Tennessee whose niece is developing telekinetic powers.

ALP is given the final word, as the book closes on a version of her Letter and her final long monologue, in which she tries to wake her sleeping husband, declaring " Rise up, man of the hooths, you have slept so long!

Patrick McCarthy describes HCE's wife ALP as " the river-woman whose presence is implied in the " riverrun " with which Finnegans Wake opens and whose monologue closes the book.

The book version closes with a chapter in which Homer Smith ( remembered as " Schmidt ," the nuns ' name for him ) and what he did have blossomed into a myth among the townsfolk.

After the credits, God ( Alanis Morissette ) closes the View Askewniverse book that still has pages left in it.

The moral of Alexi's story notwithstanding, Beauty willfully disobeys, and the book closes with her being sentenced to brutal slavery in the neighboring village along while her master weeps.

The book closes as they are sent across the sea to serve in the palace of the Sultan.

He comes down in Gaby's Marsh again, and vows in an insolent letter delivered to Uncle as the book closes that he will take a revenge " so fearful that anyone who speaks of it will develop lockjaw ".

As the book closes, Prometheus talks about the past, wonders how men could give up their individuality, and charts a future in which they will regain it.

This in its turn introduces an appalling description of the great pestilence which devastated Athens during the Peloponnesian War, and thus the book closes.

The details of both findings are documented in Davis's 1912 publication, The Tombs of Harmhabi and Touatânkhamanou ; the book closes with the comment, " I fear that the Valley of the Kings is now exhausted.

" Puttenham's book covers a general history of the art of poetry, and a discussion of the various forms of poetry ; the second treats of prosody, dealing in turn with the measures in use in English verse, the caesura, punctuation, rhyme, accent, cadence, proportion in figure, which the author illustrates by geometrical diagrams, and the proposed innovations of English quantitative verse ; the section on ornament deals with style, the distinctions between written and spoken language, the figures of speech ; and the author closes with lengthy observations on good manners.

The book opens with a full page miniature of the four evangelists and closes with two facing pages each also with a full page miniature of the evangelists.

The book closes with the sentence, " I claim no sceptre but my pen, no crown but that bequeathed by my father and mother: my dignity.

The book closes with Burgess clarifying his theme:

The immense air opens and closes my book.

* David Seabrook's 2003 book All the Devils Are Here ( Granta Books ), exploring murders and unsolved / unresolved mysteries in Kent and the Isle of Thanet, closes with a poignant yet disturbing anecdote about Hawtrey.

The book closes with Marlee returning the initial $ 10 million bribe to Fitch, having used it to make several times that much, and warning Fitch that she and Nicholas will always be watching.

In his book, Russell said of Glasgow: " Pull over and stop the car ( if you dare ) and walk into the closes smelling of urine and rubbish, cluttered with dirt and debris.

He took out a small packet filled with bits of charcoal, a deep pot of thin metal, some sheets of newspaper, a book of matches and a wrinkled and many-times folded piece of tin foil with holes in it.

The book concerned with the Negro's role in an urban society is rare indeed ; ;

In the last pages of the book Sibylla comes to Rome to seek an audience with the great Pope and to give her confession.

Perhaps Mrs. Meynell would do me the undeserved kindness to keep my own copy of the first edition of my first book, with all its mementos of her and the dear ones.

I must have written to say how much I had enjoyed his fine book The Building Of Eternal Rome, and I found he had not regretted giving me the highest mark in his old course on the later Latin poets, although in my final examination I had ignored the questions and filled the bluebook with a comparison of Propertius and Coleridge.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

and has then gone on to argue, with unimpeachable consistency, that all the obviously non-propagandistic aspects of the book are simply inadvertent `` contradictions ''.

Patchen does read some of his earlier works to music, but he has written an entire book of short poems which seem to be especially suited for reading with jazz.

In his recent book, Hurray For Anything ( 1957 ), one of the most important short poems -- and it is the title poem for one of the long jazz arrangements -- is written for recital with jazz.

The other children in the class use this same coloring book and do a fairly good job with things their proper color.

Lucius Beebe's book, `` Mr. Pullman's Elegant Palace Car '', fills us with nostalgia, recalling days when private cars and Pullmans were extra wonderful, with fine woodwork, craftsmanship in construction, deep carpets and durable upholstery.

Whether in his forthcoming book C. P. Snow commits the errors of judgment and of fact with which your heavily autobiographical critic charged him is important.

But I have compared its text with already published commentaries on the 1960 series of Godkin lectures at Harvard, from which the book was derived, and I can with confidence challenge the gist of C. P. Snow's incautious tale ''.

It must have been with some pleasure and relief that on September 12, 1848, Joseph Brown made the momentous entry in his job book, in his characteristically cryptic style, `` Lucian Sharpe came to work for me this day as an apprentice ''.

Vernon kept an account book with a list of all the establishments that he thought worthy of patronage.

This brief resume hardly does the book justice, but I heartily recommend it to all those who are engages with the major problems of our time.

Since this book is concerned only incidentally with railroad rates, it will not attempt to analyze the methods by which the staff of the Interstate Commerce Commission has estimated out-of-pocket costs and apportioned residue costs.

And the evidence that he does, indeed, stand there derives quite simply from the vigorous interest with which rather casual readers have responded to that book for the past century or so.

He is by no means the country boy he might have been in the last century, down from the hills with bear grease on his hair and a zeal for book learning in his heart.

In some parts of the country, however, a co-operative movement has begun to grow, under the wing of state governments, whereby, with the financial help of the state, libraries share their book resources on a county-wide or regional basis.

It is connected by teletype with the State Library in Albany, which will supply any book to a system that the system itself cannot provide.