Directions to Servants (Syrens S.) - Softcover

Swift, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140389148 ISBN 13: 9780140389142

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1995

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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Review

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

From the Publisher

Only available edition of this hilarious work by the author of Gulliver’s Travels.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140389148
• ISBN 13: 9780140389142
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• Editor: Rawson Claude