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Thomas More
Most famous work: 'Utopia'; Primary target: European government practices and the Catholic Church.
Aldous Huxley
Most famous work: 'Brave New World'; Primary target: Overpowering state control, consumerism, and scientific advancement.
Voltaire
Most famous work: 'Candide'; Primary target: Leibniz's optimism, war, and the Church.
Mark Twain
Most famous work: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'; Primary target: Prejudices in American society, including racism.
Juvenal
Most famous work: 'Satires'; Primary target: The vices and follies of Roman society.
Jane Austen
Most famous work: 'Pride and Prejudice'; Primary target: English social manners, marriage, and class distinctions.
Aristophanes
Most famous work: 'Lysistrata'; Primary target: The Peloponnesian War and the role of women in society.
Alexander Pope
Most famous work: 'The Rape of the Lock'; Primary target: The pettiness of high society.
Mikhail Bulgakov
Most famous work: 'The Master and Margarita'; Primary target: The suffocating bureaucratic social order of the Soviet Union.
Joseph Heller
Most famous work: 'Catch-22'; Primary target: Bureaucracy and illogical reasoning in the military.
George Orwell
Most famous work: 'Animal Farm'; Primary target: Totalitarian regimes, particularly Soviet Russia under Stalin.
Francois Rabelais
Most famous work: 'Gargantua and Pantagruel'; Primary target: Intellectual pretension and the rigid structure of the French society.
Ambrose Bierce
Most famous work: 'The Devil's Dictionary'; Primary target: Human foibles and social hypocrisy.
Jonathan Swift
Most famous work: 'A Modest Proposal'; Primary target: The British policy towards the poor in Ireland and the attitude of the rich.
Oscar Wilde
Most famous work: 'The Importance of Being Earnest'; Primary target: Victorian social norms, mannerisms, and hypocrisy.
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