Jim Fulner quoted We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
We is set in the future. D-503, a spacecraft engineer, lives in the One State, …
[I330 said,] "Who can tell? A human being is like a novel: until the last page you don't know how it will end. Or it wouldn't be worth reading . . . ."
— We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Page 141)
And yet this book gave spoilers to its end in its own introduction. I've too frequently found this an issue of reading re-releases of "classics."