These five works - George Gascoigne`s "The Adventures of Master F. J"; John Lyly`s "Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit"; Robert Greene`s "Pandosto. The Triumph of Time"; Thomas Nashe`s "The Unfortunate Traveller" and Thomas Deloney`s "Jack of Newbury" - represent Elizabethan fiction at its best. "The Adventures of Master F. J." is a comedy of manners with a sting in its tail. In "Euphues" John Lyly invented a new, elaborate rhetorical style which delighted its Elizabethan audience and has been praised or parodied ever since. "Pandosto" was Shakespeare`s source for "The Winter`s Tale", but Greene`s is a darker story designed to shock the reader accustomed to romantic conventions. "The Unfortunate Traveller" marks the peak of Nashe`s gift for literary pastiche, mixing picaresque narrative with mock-historical fantasy. "Jack of Newbury" dedicated to `All famous cloth Workers in England`, sums up important social contradictions in sharply observed comic scenes and brisk, witty dialogue.