Eli Mandel’s Reviews > The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham > Status Update

What an odd book. Every story so far has been the same story:
The writer arrives in American Samoa or Hawaii and heard the tragic tale of some white man who fell madly in love with a bewitchingly beautiful half caste girl... which, of course, is a tragically typical mistake because the local girls are beautiful when young but turn fat and ugly before long, and that's just a recipe for lifelong heartbreak.