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Synopsis
A humourous cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler to laundress, instructing them in the art of cheating their masters and behaving badly.
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Few of us have servants now, so for servants read tradesmen and note how far Swift's advice to the greedy, incompetent, profligate and shiftless still applies. The Directions are relentlessly, caustically subversive. --The Times
Directions to Servants strikes back at the master-servant dependency with an amusing blend of cynical parody and puerile insolence. --The Independent
Not only a cause of unending entertainment, but, in the final analysis, worthy of detailed study and, indeed, worth heeding, even in the most humble households, and on all sides of the Irish Sea, down to the letter. --Colm Toibin
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0140389148
- ISBN 13 9780140389142
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages96
- EditorRawson Claude
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