Lemuel Gulliver
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Lemuel Gulliver is the fictional protagonist and narrator of Gulliver's Travels, a novel written by Jonathan Swift, first published in 1726.
The first edition of Gulliver's Travels claimed that Lemuel Gulliver was its author, and contained a fictitious portrait of Lemuel Gulliver.
Gulliver captured by the Lilliputians (illustration by J.J. Grandville).
Captain Gulliver, from a French edition of Gulliver's Travels (1850s).
Lemuel Gulliver meets the King of Brobdingnag (1803), Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gulliver's Travels
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Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best-known full-length work and a classic of English literature. Swift claimed that he wrote Gulliver's Travels "to vex the world rather than divert it".
First edition of Gulliver's Travels
Mural depicting Gulliver surrounded by citizens of Lilliput
Gulliver exhibited to the Brobdingnag Farmer (painting by Richard Redgrave)
Gulliver discovers Laputa, the floating/flying island (illustration by J. J. Grandville)