Directions to Servants (Hesperus Classics) - Softcover

Swift, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843910624 ISBN 13: 9781843910626

Verlag: Hesperus Press Ltd, 2003

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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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Irish clergyman and satirist Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745) is best remembered for his philosophical parody Gulliver's Travels. Journalist and political correspondent Colm Toibin is one of Ireland's leading contemporary writers. His most recent novel is the Booker-shortlisted 'The Blackwater Lightship'.

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• Verlag: Hesperus Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1843910624
• ISBN 13: 9781843910626
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112
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