Literary Botticelli

[chickenfeet]

I'm home with a nasty cold and need entertainment so what better than a game of Literary Botticelli. The rules are here.

My name begins with D

I am fictional, male, married, not human but could reasonably be considered English and was created before 1800.

It would be a stretch to describe the work I appear in as a novel.

I am not Humpty Dumpty or related to eggs in any way.

In most ways I appear to be human. In one important one I do not.

I do not have a tail.

I am not Dylan or Delnabo.

Clues added

My home also starts with D

I appear in a work that was once immensely popular but probably isn't much read anymore

We have a winner

valkyriekaren correctly deduced that I am the giant Despair from Pilgrim's Progress.

Comments

[intertext.livejournal.com]

Were you ever tried for treason?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I was not. Of whom were you thinking?

[intertext.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of Charles Darnay.

Are you a character in a novel?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I am a character. It would be a stretch to describe my home as a novel.