Round 4: Tossup 13

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

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