Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit

Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit is a 1578 prose work by the English writer John Lyly, entered in the Stationers' Register in December of that year. Its title comes from a Greek word meaning graceful or witty, borrowed by Lyly from an educational text by Roger Ascham. The work is written in a highly mannered style built on parallel constructions and elaborate wordplay, and it gave its name to the literary term euphuism for that style. The saying all is fair in love and war has been attributed to the book, which was followed by a sequel, Euphues and His England, in 1580. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/