A lawyer from this city claims to do "a far, far better thingÂ… than I have ever done" by replacing his lookalike Charles Darnay at the guillotine in Paris.
An author recalls filling "five dustbins to overflowing with good food" in this city in the essay "The Spike," which inspired a memoir whose second half describes the author's poverty in this city. Gordon Comstock destroys his poem about this city's "Pleasures" at the end of the novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying. A character becomes a doctor in this city after he is found obsessively making shoes since his release from prison; that man is Lucie Manette's father. This is the second (*) title city of a book in which George Orwell is Down and Out. A lawyer from this city claims to do "a far, far better thingÂ… than I have ever done" by replacing his lookalike Charles Darnay at the guillotine in Paris. For 10 points, name this English title city of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
An author recalls filling "five dustbins to overflowing with good food" in this city in the essay "The Spike," which inspired a memoir whose second half describes the author's poverty in this city.
London