Directions to Servants
Seiten
2017
Alma Classics (Verlag)
978-1-84749-661-4 (ISBN)
Alma Classics (Verlag)
978-1-84749-661-4 (ISBN)
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. It takes a caustic and irreverent look at master-servant relations.
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 towards the end of his writing career and published posthumously, this pamphlet shows Swift – who was himself known to be strict but fair to his own servants, as illustrated in the Appendix to this volume – at his witty and mischievous best.
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 towards the end of his writing career and published posthumously, this pamphlet shows Swift – who was himself known to be strict but fair to his own servants, as illustrated in the Appendix to this volume – at his witty and mischievous best.
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer of prose, poetry, essays and political pamphlets, and is probably the best-known satirist in the English language. His novel Gulliver’s Travels is one of the landmarks of world literature.
Erscheinungsdatum | 12.05.2017 |
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Reihe/Serie | Quirky Classics |
Verlagsort | Richmond |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 110 x 150 mm |
Gewicht | 97 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Humor / Satire |
Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker | |
ISBN-10 | 1-84749-661-X / 184749661X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-84749-661-4 / 9781847496614 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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