The Remains of the Day
Ranked #4 in Nobel, Ranked #6 in English Writer — see more rankings.
An elegant Everyman's Library hardcover edition of the universally acclaimed novel—winner of the Booker Prize, a bestseller and a perpetually strong backlist title, and the basis for an award-winning film—with full-cloth binding, a silk ribbon marker, a chronology, and a new introduction by Salman Rushdie.
Here is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on... more
Here is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on... more
Reviews and Recommendations
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Jeff Bezos Founder/AmazonIf you read The Remains of the Day, which is one of my favorite books, you can't help but come away and think, I just spent 10 hours living an alternate life and I learned something about life and about regret. You can't do that in a blog post. (Source)
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Rankings by Category
The Remains of the Day is ranked in the following categories:
- #32 in 20th Century
- #34 in Asian
- #61 in Author
- #27 in Award-Winning
- #17 in Awarded
- #65 in Beautiful
- #25 in Bibliography
- #25 in Class
- #80 in Existential
- #15 in Folio Society
- #10 in Gin
- #54 in Historical Fiction
- #40 in Japanese
- #20 in Literary
- #70 in Literature
- #17 in Loneliness
- #13 in Memory Improvement
- #66 in Men
- #50 in Modern
- #40 in Modern Classic
- #50 in Modern Fiction
- #71 in Novel
- #99 in Oprah
- #32 in Postmodernism
- #98 in Pulitzer Prize
- #78 in Quarantine
- #86 in Roman
- #59 in Self-Awareness
- #6 in Service
- #6 in St. Paul
- #16 in UK
- #60 in University
- #18 in Vacation
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