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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 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.
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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer of prose, poetry, essays and political pamphlets, and is probably the best-known satirist in the English Language
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"A central document in the long, comic and sly history of Irish disrespect." —Colm Tóibín, author, Brooklyn
"Strikes back at the master-servant dependency with an amusing blend of cynical parody and puerile insolence." —Independent
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- PublisherOneworld Classics
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1847491758
- ISBN 13 9781847491756
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages144
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