num_pages: 258
description: Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 0571225381 here.In the summer of 1956, Stevens, a long-serving butler at Darlington Hall, decides to take a motoring trip through the West Country. The six-day excursion becomes a journey into the past of Stevens and England, a past that takes in fascism, two world wars, and an unrealised love between the butler and his housekeeper.
language: English
title: The Remains of the Day
titlecomplete: The Remains of the Day
characters: William Stevens, M. Dupont, Miss Kenton, Senator Lewis, Mr. Farraday, James Stevens, Lord Darlington, Reginald Cardinal
genres: Audiobook, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, British Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 287434
places: England, United Kingdom
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1546329600000
name: Deutscher Hörbuchpreis
category: Bester Interpret
publisher: Faber & Faber