Directions to Servants

Jonathan Swift

Original title: Directions to servants

first published 1745 Hesperus Press, 2003 paperback 96 pages

"Directions to Servants takes the form of a handbook of manners, addressed to each servant in turn, and depicting what must be 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. Written in the author's final years of sanity, Directions of Servants is a last hilarious outpouring of cynicism at a lifet...

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