Directions to Servants (Hesperus Classics)
Contributors: Colm Tóibín (Introduction)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Hesperus Press
Published: October 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781843910626
Subjects: Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries; Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745; Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Topic - Business and Professional; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Essays; ENGLISH LITERATURE_IRISH AUTHORS; Fiction / Literary; IRONY IN LITERATURE; Literary Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Humorous
Description: "Directions to Servants takes the form of a handbook of manners, addressed to each servant in turn, and depicting what must be 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. Written in the author's final years of sanity, Directions of Servants is a last hilarious outpouring of cynicism at a lifetime's accumulation of poor service."--BOOK JACKET.