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Directions to Servants (Oneworld Classics)

Directions to Servants (Oneworld Classics)

by JonathanSwift (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

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    Paperback 2003

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Synopsis

A tongue-in-cheek manual on how servants should cope with the demands of their masters and perform their tasks in ways that will best satisfy their indolence, wastefulness and greed, Directions to Servants takes a caustic and irreverent look at master-servant relations.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 144
 Publisher: Oneworld Classics Ltd
Published: 22 Feb 2011
ISBN 10: 1847491758
ISBN 13: 9781847491756

Media Reviews
Few of us have servants now, so for servants read tradesmen and note how far Swift's advice to the greedy, incompetent, profligate and shiftless still applies. The Directions are relentlessly, caustically subversive.A The Times Directions to Servants strikes back at the master-servant dependency with an amusing blend of cynical parody and puerile insolence.A The Independent Not only a cause of unending entertainment, but, in the final analysis, worthy of detailed study and, indeed, worth heeding, even in the most humble households, and on all sides of the Irish Sea, down to the letter.A Colm Toibin
Author Bio
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