Author: Jonathan SwiftPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Directions to Servants
Author: Jonathan SwiftDirections to Servants
Author: Jonathan SwiftPublisher: Hesperus Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Directions to Servants is one of Jonathan Swift’s last completed works. It displays all his caustic skill as a satirist and his unerring eye for the little annoyances of life. Taking the form of a handbook of manners, and addressed to each servant individually, Directions to Servants is the ultimate upstairs/downstairs battle. With scathing wit, Swift pits master against servant in an endless struggle for order, frugality, and the best bits of the roast. His servants are lazy, profligate, and acquisitive—always on the lookout for a shilling to be made on the sale of leftovers, or a half-bottle of wine to share with the cook. Written in Swift’s final years of sanity, Directions to Servants is a last hilarious outpouring of cynicism at a lifetime’s accumulation of poor service. Irish clergyman and satirist Jonathan Swift is best remembered for his philosophical parody Gulliver’s Travels.
Directions to Servants and Miscellaneous Pieces
Author: Jonathan SwiftDirections to Servants
Author: Jonathan SwiftPublisher:
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Category : Household employees
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: Directions to servants and miscellaneous pieces, 1733-1742
Author: Jonathan SwiftDirections to Servants
Author: Jonathan SwiftPublisher:
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Category : Household employees
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Jonathan Swift's Directions to Servants
Author: Jonathan SwiftPublisher: New York : Pantheon Books
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Category : Domestics
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Author: Jonathan Swift
Author: Jonathan Swift
Author: Jonathan Swift