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Directions to Servants (Hesperus Classics)
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Directions to Servants is one of Jonathan Swifts 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 acquisitivealways on the lookout for a shilling to be made on the sale of leftovers, or a halfbottle of wine to share with the cook. Written in Swifts final years of sanity, Directions to Servants is a last hilarious outpouring of cynicism at a lifetimes accumulation of poor service. Irish clergyman and satirist Jonathan Swift is best remembered for his philosophical parody Gullivers Travels.
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