“And yet what precisely is this ‘greatness’? Just where, or in what, does it lie? I am quite aware it would take a far wiser head than mine to answer such a question, but if I were forced to hazard a guess, I would say that it is the very lack of obvious drama or spectacle that sets the beauty of our land apart. Here are my favourite quotes from the book: It’s a masterful story of regret and not doing what you’ve always wanted to do. It is a story of Stevens living a life of professionalism, wondering what it’s like to a butler with “dignity”.Īs a result, he denies his own emotions and desires and ends up rueing his wasted chances. It is written from a first-person narrative, of Stevens, an English butler. The Remains of the Day is a 1989 novel, written by the Nobel Prize-winning British author, Kazuo Ishiguro.
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