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* Happens in [[The Bible (Literature)|The Bible]], with Revelation skipping from the 1st few centuries A.D. to the end of the world. Obviously that makes this trope [[Older Than Feudalism]].
* ''[[Narnia|The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]]'' almost ends like this. After the defeat of the White Witch it jumps to the children having grown up in Narnia. Then they wander back into the real world (having nearly forgotten it) and discover not only has no time passed since they arrived (because of [[Year Inside Hour Outside]]) but they're children again.
* The main events of the epilogue of ''[[War and Peace]]'' take place 8 years after the events of the novel conclude. Tolstoy, per his genius, covers 8 years in thirty pages, compared with the first 7 years of the novel which took [[
* The last chapter of ''[[Harry Potter (Literature)|Harry Potter]]'' takes place 19 years after the end of the story. It shows all the main characters taking their children to the Hogwarts train, where we briefly catch up with what they've been doing for the last few years. Naturally, most of them have married each other.
* ''[[The Handmaids Tale|The Handmaid's Tale]]'' ends x-mumble years later with the finding of the documents that made up the preceding book, and scholars opining: "Oh, my, weren't people back then just so foolish; of course, nothing like that could ever happen again."
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