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Thomas More

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Most famous work: 'Utopia'; Primary target: European government practices and the Catholic Church.

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Aldous Huxley

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Most famous work: 'Brave New World'; Primary target: Overpowering state control, consumerism, and scientific advancement.

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Voltaire

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Most famous work: 'Candide'; Primary target: Leibniz's optimism, war, and the Church.

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Mark Twain

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Most famous work: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'; Primary target: Prejudices in American society, including racism.

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Juvenal

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Most famous work: 'Satires'; Primary target: The vices and follies of Roman society.

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Jane Austen

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Most famous work: 'Pride and Prejudice'; Primary target: English social manners, marriage, and class distinctions.

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Aristophanes

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Most famous work: 'Lysistrata'; Primary target: The Peloponnesian War and the role of women in society.

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Alexander Pope

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Most famous work: 'The Rape of the Lock'; Primary target: The pettiness of high society.

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Mikhail Bulgakov

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Most famous work: 'The Master and Margarita'; Primary target: The suffocating bureaucratic social order of the Soviet Union.

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Joseph Heller

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Most famous work: 'Catch-22'; Primary target: Bureaucracy and illogical reasoning in the military.

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George Orwell

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Most famous work: 'Animal Farm'; Primary target: Totalitarian regimes, particularly Soviet Russia under Stalin.

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Francois Rabelais

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Most famous work: 'Gargantua and Pantagruel'; Primary target: Intellectual pretension and the rigid structure of the French society.

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Ambrose Bierce

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Most famous work: 'The Devil's Dictionary'; Primary target: Human foibles and social hypocrisy.

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Jonathan Swift

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Most famous work: 'A Modest Proposal'; Primary target: The British policy towards the poor in Ireland and the attitude of the rich.

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Oscar Wilde

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Most famous work: 'The Importance of Being Earnest'; Primary target: Victorian social norms, mannerisms, and hypocrisy.

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