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The Unconsoled. The Remains of the Day is a 1989 novel by the Nobel Prize -winning British author Kazuo Ishiguro. The protagonist, Stevens, is a butler with a long record of service at Darlington Hall, a fictitious stately home near Oxford, England. In 1956, he takes a road trip to visit a former colleague, and reminisces about events at ...
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- 258
- 1989
- May 1989
Nov 19, 1993 · A butler who sacrificed his life for his lordly employer realizes his loyalty was misguided in pre-World War II Britain. Starring Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Christopher Reeve and directed by James Ivory.
- (81K)
- Drama, Romance
- James Ivory
- 1993-11-19
The Remains of the Day is a 1993 drama film adapted from the Booker Prize-winning 1989 novel of the same name by Kazuo Ishiguro. The film was directed by James Ivory , produced by Ismail Merchant , Mike Nichols , and John Calley and adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala .
- $15 million
Jan 1, 2001 · The Remains of the Day, is a 1989 novel by Nobel Prize-winning British writer, Kazuo Ishiguro. 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 ...
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- Paperback
A comprehensive guide to Kazuo Ishiguro's novel about a butler's memories and the decline of the English aristocracy. Find plot summary, themes, quotes, characters, symbols, and more.
Apr 12, 2024 · Ishiguro’s Booker Prize -winning The Remains of the Day (1989; film 1993) is a first-person narrative, the reminiscences of Stevens, an elderly English butler whose prim mask of formality has shut him off from understanding and intimacy. With the publication of The Remains of the Day, Ishiguro became one of the best-known European novelists ...
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A classic Merchant-Ivory film starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson as a butler and a housekeeper in a British estate. The film explores the themes of loyalty, duty, and regret in the context of the 1930s and the Second World War.
- (48)
- Drama
- PG