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Lemuel Gulliver
Lemuel Gulliver () is the fictional protagonist and narrator of "Gulliver's Travels", a novel written by Jonathan Swift, first published in 1726.
In "Gulliver's Travels".
According to Swift's novel, Gulliver was born in Nottinghamshire c. 1661, where his father had a small estate; the Gulliver family is said to have originated in Oxfordshire, however. He supposedly studied for three years (c. 1675-1678) at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, leaving to become an apprentice to
anecdotes about scandalous episodes at the Lilliputian court.
- Abbé Pierre Desfontaines, the first French translator of Swift's story, wrote a sequel, "Le Nouveau Gulliver ou Voyages de Jean Gulliver, fils du capitaine Lemuel Gulliver" (The New Gulliver, or the travels of John Gulliver, son of Captain Lemuel Gulliver), published in 1730. Gulliver's son has various fantastic, satirical adventures.
- Donald Grant Mitchell retold part one of the novel in the form of a short story for children, published in