An edition of The Remains of the Day
(1989)
The Remains of the Day
New Ed edition
by Kazuo Ishiguro
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In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . . .A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost love.
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Man Booker Prize Winner, award:man_booker_prize=1989, Literature, Household employees, Butlers, Country homes, Domestics, Fiction, Country homes -- Fiction, Man-woman relationships, History, Historical fiction, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Fiction, historical, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), England, fiction, Readers, Diener, Fiction, historical, general, Social classes, Country homes--history, Country homes--england--history--20th century--fiction, Man-woman relationships--england--fiction, Household employees--england--fiction, Pr6059.s5 r46 1993xPlaces
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The Remains of the Day
August 14, 2000, Longman
Paperback
in English
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The remains of the day
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The remains of the day
1989, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
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"Tonight, I find myself here in a guest house in the city of Salisbury."
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| November 15, 2025 | Edited by Faranae | all romances are love stories, but not all love stories (or books with love story subplots...) are romances |
| July 4, 2024 | Edited by siiky | Fix title |
| September 15, 2021 | Edited by Jenner | Merge works |
| March 27, 2021 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
| April 29, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | Imported from amazon.com record |