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Directions to Servants at Wikisource. Directions to Servants is a satirical and humorous essay by Jonathan Swift. Swift is known to have been working on it in 1731, though it was not published until after his death in 1745.
- Essay; satire
- R. Dodsley & M. Cooper
16 de ene. de 2020 · Language. English. x, 78 p. ; 20 cm. "Foreword by Colm Tóibı́n"--Cover. All servants in general -- The butler -- The cook -- The footman -- The coachman -- The groom -- The house steward and land steward -- The porter -- The chambermaid -- The waiting-maid -- The housemaid -- The dairymaid -- The children's maid -- The nurse ...
8 de mar. de 2022 · Swift's directions to servants. by. Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 author. Publication date. 1798. Topics. Household employees -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800, Household employees -- Humor, Household employees. Publisher. London : Printed for J. Nunn, No. 48, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields.
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. Show more.
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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...
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- Jonathan Swift
- Hesperus, 2003
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.
Directions to Servants es un ensayo satírico y humorístico de Jonathan Swift . Se sabe que Swift estuvo trabajando en él en 1731, aunque no se publicó hasta después de su muerte en 1745. Los primeros capítulos están mucho más desarrollados que los posteriores, y parece que el trabajo quedó sin terminar y sin corregir a la muerte de ...
