Annotation
A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England. A wonderful, wonderful book. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Awards
1989 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
Characters
| Name | Stevens |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Butler |
| Genre | Psychological Domestic Sociological Fiction |
| Topics | Self-discovery Repression Unfulfilled dreams Upper classes Domestics British-German relations British society |
| Setting | England Darlington Hall Manor house |