Author: Jonathan SwiftPublisher: New York : Pantheon Books
ISBN:
Category : Domestics
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Jonathan Swift's Directions to Servants
Author: Jonathan SwiftPublisher: New York : Pantheon Books
ISBN:
Category : Domestics
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Swift's Directions to Servants
Author: Jonathan SwiftPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Household employees
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Jonathan Swift's Directions to Servants
Author: Anthony BlondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Household employees
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Jonathan Swift's "Directions to Servants."
Author: Lucille Chambellan KingeryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Directions to servants [and miscellany
Author: Jonathan SwiftDirections to Servants
Author: Jonathan SwiftPublisher: Hesperus Press
ISBN:
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.
Swift's Directions to servants. A new edition
Author: Jonathan SwiftHints to Servants; Being a Poetical and Modernised Version of Swift's "Directions to Servants" ...
Author: Jonathan SwiftDirections to Servants and Miscellaneous Pieces
Author: Jonathan SwiftSwift: The Man, his Works, and the Age
Author: Irvin EhrenpreisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000353591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
First published in 1983, Dean Swift is the concluding book in a series of three volumes providing a detailed exploration of the events of Swift’s life. The third volume follows Swift’s life and career from 1714 to 1745 and sets it against the public events of the age, paying close attention to political and economic change, ecclesiastical problems, social issues, and literary history. It traces Swift’s rise to becoming first citizen of Ireland and looks in detail at the composition, publication, and reception of Gulliver’s Travels, as well as many of Swift’s other works, both poetry and prose. It also explores Swift’s later years, his love affairs with Esther Johnson and Esther Vanhomrigh, his complicated friendships with Pope, Lord Bolingbroke, and Archbishop King, and his declining health. Dean Swift is a hugely detailed insight into Swift’s life from 1714 until his death and will be of interest to anyone wanting to find out more about his life and works.