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The Remains of your Day is just a profoundly compelling portrait of an ideal English butler and of his diminishing, insular world post-war England. At the finish of his three years of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, where he looks back over his job to assure herself that he's offered mankind by helping “a great gentleman.” But hiding in his storage are doubts about the real character of Lord Darlington’s “greatness” and graver doubts about their own belief in the person he served. A heartbreaking, religious face of the perfect English butler and his a reaction to his fading insular world in post war England. A wonderful, wonderful book.