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16 de ene. de 2020 · Directions to servants by Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Publication date 2003 Topics Household employees -- Humor -- Early works to 1800 Publisher London : Hesperus Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English. x, 78 p. ; 20 cm
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.
3 de ago. de 2023 · Half-title: 'Dean Swift's Directions to servants'. - A satire on the general conduct of servants.
'Directions To Servants' by Jonathan Swift. Rules that concern All Servants in general. WHEN your Master or Lady call a Servant by Name, if that Servant be not in the Way, none of you are to answer, for then there will be no End of your Drudgery: And Masters themselves allow, that if a Servant comes when he is called, it is sufficient.
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...
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.
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.
