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 Servant s 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 ...
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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 Servant s 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.
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Good. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; Type: Ex-Library Type: Ex-Library A treasure! Would be AS NEW except for library markings. Small Trade Paperback with cookie jar and cookie on cover. Directions to each servant in turn, with their upstairs and downstairs duties, pitting master against servant with his scathing wit to gain order, frugality and "the best bits of roast". Lib marks as usual, not messy. The cover folds over to make a flap--a French flap. Quite a nice book. 78 pages, 4.8 x 7.75 inches. 2003, Hesperus Press, London, England.
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