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By Max Shulman

This riotous chronicle of the bits and bobs and ups and downs of collegiate romance was once the root for the long-lasting tv convey starring Dwayne Hickman, Bob Denver, and Tuesday Weld

together with tales first released in Cosmopolitan and the Saturday night Post, this bestselling assortment follows the romantic escapades of Max Shulman’s famed collegiate Don Juan. Like so much undergraduates, Dobie Gillis is a section scattered—sometimes he’s as speedy as a whip, different occasions boring as a doorstop, and his significant retains altering from chemistry to legislation to journalism. yet it doesn't matter what topic he might be learning, Dobie continuously has a lady on his mind.

In “Love Is a Fallacy,” Shulman’s best-known brief tale that to today is taught in writing periods and English survey classes as an archetypal instance of the style, Dobie unearths the right bride-to-be. She’s attractive and gracious, yet no longer too smart—a flaw that he units out to mend, with the main hilarious and ironic of outcomes. In “The unfortunate Winner,” Dobie and Clothilde Ellingboe minimize corners at school to make extra time for his or her dates. yet after an most unlikely English project sends the couple deep into the stacks to plagiarize an vague essay, Dobie unearths himself in a daft bind. And in “She Shall Have Music,” Dobie can’t concentrate on his tasks as movement supervisor for the varsity humor journal simply because his female friend, Pansy, has been shipped off to manhattan via her purple-faced father. The determined Romeo hatches a plan to save lots of the journal and stopover at his lady, yet a sequence of undesirable judgements and a Lithuanian marriage ceremony band threaten to break everything.

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