Dear WW: Don't waste any time on Of Human Bondage. It got so stupid I quit reading it. Men have died, and worms have eatgen them, but not for love. Maugham wants us to believe that Philip would dump a pretty girl who was nice to him to go back to a disagreeable stupid bitch with only a pretty face, who never said a kind word to him until she was illegitimately pregnant by a bastard who had deserted her.