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This riotous chronicle of the bits and bobs and ups and downs of collegiate romance was once the foundation for the enduring 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 such a lot undergraduates, Dobie Gillis is a section scattered—sometimes he’s as quickly as a whip, different instances uninteresting as a doorstop, and his significant retains altering from chemistry to legislation to journalism. yet it doesn't matter what topic he could be learning, Dobie constantly has a lady on his mind.
 
In “Love Is a Fallacy,” Shulman’s best-known brief tale that to this present day is taught in writing sessions and English survey classes as an archetypal instance of the style, Dobie reveals the fitting bride-to-be. She’s attractive and gracious, yet now not 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 lower corners at school to make extra time for his or her dates. yet after an very unlikely English task sends the couple deep into the stacks to plagiarize an vague essay, Dobie reveals himself in a ludicrous bind. And in “She Shall Have Music,” Dobie can’t specialize in his tasks as stream supervisor for the varsity humor journal simply because his female friend, Pansy, has been shipped off to big apple by way of 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.