literature featuring cities

can you name the city that plays a significant role in these literary works?
this isn't just where the stories are set (though many are set there); the city has to play a prominent role
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title
type
author
year
city
The Iliad
epic poem
Homer
~760 BCE
Troy
Romeo and Juliet
play
William Shakespeare
1597
Verona
Les Misérables
novel
Victor Hugo
1862
Paris
Notes from Underground
novella
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1864
Saint Petersburg
The Jungle
novel
Upton Sinclair
1905
Chicago
Ulysses
novel
James Joyce
1922
Dublin
Mrs. Dalloway
novel
Virginia Woolf
1925
London
Gone With the Wind
novel
Margaret Mitchell
1936
Atlanta
A Streetcar Named Desire
play
Tennessee Williams
1947
New Orleans
The Catcher in the Rye
novel
J. D. Salinger
1951
New York City
The Crucible
play
Arthur Miller
1953
Salem
The Master and Margarita
novel
Mikhail Bulgakov
1967
Moscow
Slaughterhouse-Five
novel
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
1969
Dresden
Midnight's Children
novel
Salman Rushdie
1981
Mumbai
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
novel
Milan Kundera
1984
Prague
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