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.
