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Prologue: July 1956
Stevens, the long-serving butler of Darlington Hall, learns from his new American employer Mr. Farraday that he can take the car for a week-long trip through the English countrysi…
Day One – Evening: Salisbury
Stevens sets off and reaches Salisbury on the first evening. Driving through the English countryside, he becomes unexpectedly moved by the landscape and begins to think about what…
Day Two – Morning: Salisbury
Still in Salisbury, Stevens continues to think about the nature of great butlers and begins to recall his father, who was also a butler and whom Stevens treats as a model of the p…
Day Two – Afternoon: Mortimer's Pond, Dorset
Stevens drives on and stops near a pond in Dorset. His memories begin to shift toward Darlington Hall in the 1930s, and specifically toward Miss Kenton.
Day Three – Morning: Taunton, Somerset
Stevens reaches Taunton and continues his reflections on the 1930s. This section brings Lord Darlington more fully into the picture.
Day Three – Evening: Moscombe, near Tavistock, Devon
Stevens stops in the village of Moscombe and stays with a local couple, Dr. Carlisle and his wife.
Day Four – Afternoon: Little Compton, Cornwall
Stevens finally reaches Miss Kenton's home and meets her in person for the first time in decades. The reunion is quiet and slightly awkward, shaped by everything neither of them s…
Day Six – Evening: Weymouth
The novel ends in Weymouth, where Stevens sits on a pier at dusk and talks briefly with a stranger. The conversation is small, but it opens Stevens up in a way the whole trip has…
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