Directions To Servants
Author(s): Swift Jonathan
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.
General Information
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- : Hesperus Press Ltd
- : UNKNOWN
- : 0.127
- : 28 August 2003
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Swift Jonathan
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 828.509
- : 112
More About The Product
"'Directions to Servants reads as a central document in the long, comic and sly history of Irish disrespect which includes Sterne and Sheridan and Wilde, Joyce and Beckett and Flann O'Brien... A stroke of genius' - From the foreword by Colm Toibin "Directions to Servants' strikes back at the master-servant dependency with an amusing blend of cynical parody and puerile insolence.' - The Independent 'a gleefully scatological guide to enacting a filthy revenge on ingrate employers.' - Time Out"
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.
