History BookEnds / Literature

** At the start of the first book, Hagrid carries baby Harry to his relatives' home. Near the end of the last book, [[spoiler: Voldemort forces Hagrid to carry the seemingly-dead Harry back to Hogwarts.]]

* In IsaacAsimov's short story "In a Good Cause—", there is a short prologue-scene (in italics), of which the first sentence is led into at the end of the main story and repeated verbatim (also in italics).

* ''Literature/OneDay'' starts and ends with Emma and Dex's first day together in 1988.

** So does its sequel, TheWiseMansFear.

* DonQuixote: At chapter I of the first part, Don Quixote spends [[SeriousBusiness four days thinking how to MeaningfulRename his horse, and another eight days how to rename himself]], showing us that he is a MadDreamer. At the penultimate chapter of the second part, Don Quixote immediately thinks of the names he and his partners will adopt as shepherds, and Sanson Carrasco even say some names in a carelessly manner. ''Don Quixote laughed at the adaptation of the name'', showing us that he now is BoredWithInsanity.

* [[spoiler: Voldemort dies as a spell intended to kill HarryPotter backfires.]] Now are we talking about ''PhilosophersStone'' or ''DeathlyHallows''?
** [[spoiler:The spells backfire because somebody else died to save Harry]]
*** Wait, I thought [[spoiler:it backfired]] because [[spoiler:the Elder Wand really belonged to Harry. Voldy's spells didn't work on everyone ELSE because HARRY died to save THEM.]]

* The HisDarkMaterials cycle begins and ends with the name of the protagonist: ''Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall. [...] "The Republic of Heaven," said Lyra.''

* The HisDarkMaterials cycle begins and ends with the name of the protagonist: ''Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall. [...] "The Republic of Heaven, said Lyra".''

* ''FinnegansWake'' ends with a half-finished sentence that is completed by the book's ''first'' sentence, so it's more of a loop. Samuel Delany does the same thing in ''{{Dhalgren}}''.

* Nick Kyme's ''{{Warhammer 40000}} {{Salamanders}}'' novel ''Salamander'' opens and ends with [[spoiler:the death of their captain from treacherous attacks, and the company's coping with it. Coping better at the end than the beginning.]]

* JamesSwallow's ''{{Warhammer 40000}} BloodAngels'' novels ''Deus Encarmine'' begins on a grave world, and ''Deus Sanguinius'' ends on one. Both chapters open with fighting and end with a Blood Angel reflecting in the chapel.

* ''{{Prisoner of Azkaban}}'' begins with a lot of owls giving post to Harry. It ends with more owl post for Harry (and a bit for Ron). The chapters are even called "Owl Post" and "Owl Post Again."

* ''{{Blade of Tyshalle}}'' by Matthew Woodring Stover has the ''"A tale is told of twin boys born to different mothers"'' passage appear right after the book begins (after the ending quotes) and right before it ends (second-to-last page).

* Katharibe Kerr's ''{{Deverry}}'' series, in the prologue of the first and the epilogue of the last (15th) book.

* The British publication of ''AClockworkOrange'' begins and ends with almost exactly the same passages, only with different names for the people in his gang. Several chapters, including the first and last, also start with the phrase, "So, what's it going to be then, eh?"

** Wait, I thought [[spoiler:it backfired]] because [[spoiler:the Elder Wand really belonged to Harry. Voldy's spells didn't work on everyone ELSE because HARRY died to save THEM.]]

* ''Baltimore'', a novel by [[HellBoy Mike Mignola]] and Christopher Golden uses a ''tense'' for this: the beginning and ending sections are both written in present tense, versus the rest being written in past tense.

* A perfect example would be {{The Name of the Wind}}, as the epilogue, and the prologue, name The Silence of Three Parts has the very same descriptions in them.

* At the beginning of ''{{Buddenbrooks}}'', the family talks about another merchant who was ruined recently. Guess what happens to the family Buddenbrook at the end.

* "Game of Thrones" Starts with Undead, and Ends with a healing spell and Dragons. There's none of the typical fantasy magic and monsters in between, except in the past tense.