“Beppu (n.)
The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.”
Source: The Deeper Meaning of Liff
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Book I, Canto VIII, II The Revelation.
The Angel In The House (1854)

“The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.”
Attributed to Augustine in "Select Proverbs of All Nations" (1824) by "Thomas Fielding" (John Wade), p. 216 http://www.archive.org/details/selectproverbsa00wadegoog, and later in the form "The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page", as quoted in 20,000 Quips & Quotes (1995) by Evan Esar, p. 822; this has not been located in Augustine's writings, and may be a variant translation of an expression found in Le Cosmopolite (1753) by Fougeret de Monbron: "The universe is a sort of book, whose first page one has read when one has seen only one's own country."
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From the thirteenth book, "The Book of the Dead"
The Pillow Book

“A year ago, I turned the final page of The Book of the Dead. I don't feel young any more.”
Source: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Sabriel (1995), p. 46.