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Lädt ... Directions to Servants (Hesperus Classics)von Jonathan Swift
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Though dated, such a great little book. ( ) Mildly amusing compendium of evil advice to the help; interesting chiefly as a reminder of the many gruelling services the lower classes had to provide to the masters in the era of chamber pots (flushed through the window), unpaved streets, wood furnaces, iffy hygiene and unpasteurised dairy products. I enjoyed picturing the characters from "Upstairs, Downstairs" as the recipients (and sufferers) of Swift's "advice"--made the one-joke text a bit zestier. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"Directions to Servants" is one of Jonathan Swift's last completed works. It displays all his caustic skill as a satirist and his unerring eye for the little annoyances of life. Taking the form of a handbook of manners, and addressed to each servant individually, "Directions to Servant"s 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. Irish clergyman and satirist Jonathan Swift is best remembered for his philosophical parody "Gulliver's Travels." Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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