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Directions to servants /

"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...

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Main Author: Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Hesperus, 2003.
Series:100 pages
Subjects and Genres:
Household employees > Humor > Early works to 1800.
Employés de maison > Humour > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Household employees.
Wit and Humor
Early works to 1800.
humor.
Early works.
Humor.
Humour.
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Summary: "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."--Jacket.
Item Description: "Foreword by Colm Tóibı́n"--Cover.
Physical Description: x, 78 pages ; 20 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 75).
ISBN: 1843910624
9781843910626

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