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In a work by this author, a father’s order to preserve three coats is disregarded by Peter, who eventually evicts his brothers, Jack and Martin, for objecting. (10[2])A character created by this author rejects human society after he meets a talking race of horses, (10[1])the (10[1])Houyhnhnms (10[3])(“WIN-ims”). An essay by this author, which imagines making “admirable gloves for ladies and summer boots for gentlemen,” calculated that a nation contained one hundred twenty thousand impoverished breeders. (10[1])In that essay, this author of A Tale of a Tub suggested “greatly lessen[ing] the number of Papists” by cannibalizing Irish babies. (10[2])For 10 points, name this Anglo-Irish author of A Modest Proposal and Gulliver’s Travels. ■END■

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