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The Remains of the Day Introduction by Salman Rushdie (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

Name: The Remains of the Day: Introduction by Salman Rushdie (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro

From the Nobel Prize–winning author, here is an elegant Everyman's Library hardcover edition of the universally acclaimed novel—winner of the Booker Prize, a bestseller, and the basis for an award-winning film—with full-cloth binding, a silk ribbon marker, a chronology, and an introduction by Salman...

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The hosts asked Emma if she had seen the film adaptation, confirming the title as a wellknown work.

Guys, Emma Thompson have you seen Remains of the Day yes yes I mean I've seen that so many times.

— Episode: "Emma Thompson"

Episode: "Emma Thompson"

The hosts asked Emma if she had seen the film adaptation, confirming the title as a wellknown work.

Guys, Emma Thompson have you seen Remains of the Day yes yes I mean I've seen that so many times.

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The novel was referenced as a cultural touchstone when comparing British aristocratic attitudes to those depicted in the book.

people, it's rather like Lord Darlington and Kazuyo Ishiguro's novel, The Remains of the Day.

— Episode: 375. Hitler and the Mitford Sisters

Episode: 375. Hitler and the Mitford Sisters

The novel was referenced as a cultural touchstone when comparing British aristocratic attitudes to those depicted in the book.

people, it's rather like Lord Darlington and Kazuyo Ishiguro's novel, The Remains of the Day.

Episode: 300: The Real Downton Abbey

They noted that Ishiguro's novel captured the ambiguous gentlemanly status of butlers, describing them as "almost gentlemen but not quite".

and which Kazuo Ishiguro captures very well in The Remains of the Day I think is that they are almost gentlemen but not quite and again you get the whole servant and master relationship in this period is about these minutely calibrated vocabulary about class.