私人图书馆员 玛丽·本尼迪克特 和 维多利亚·克里斯托弗·默里 这是一部历史小说，它让我们深入了解美国内战后非裔美国人的成长经历。本书构思精巧，资料翔实，讲述了贝尔·达·科斯塔·格林（原名玛丽昂·格林纳）的故事。两位作者进行了深入的研究，并将这些研究成果融入到贝尔虚构却又真实的内心世界中。
Belle De Costa Greene in the year 1905 is hired by Princeton University to become the director of J. P. Morgan’s art collection and library. Soon she is pleasing the New York elite with her style, character and knowledge. She goes to male-dominated auctions and ventures to the far corners of the world to secure the uncommon 图书 and manuscripts needed to finish a prominent collection.
However, Belle has a hidden secret that only her family knows. The disclosure of this secret 将 demolish all that she has acquired. Her relationship, her reputation, and her career are all in question. Belle is the daughter of Richard Greener. He was the first black man to graduate from Harvard University and was a vocal civil rights advocate. He left the family after Belle’s mom, Genevieve Fleet, who is likewise from a rich African American family in Washington DC, demanded bringing up and passing their kids as white. Belle was a teenager when her dad left the family.
The Personal Librarian plot is fascinating, especially because most people have never heard of Belle de Costa Greene. Oh well, Belle doesn’t earn our unalloyed compassion. She obediently upholds her mom and siblings monetarily. However, she likewise revels in her brilliance and capacity to size up her rivals; appreciates flaunting her glamorous wardrobe; flirts with powerful people to get everything she might 想; and has an affair with a man of questionable ethics. Just later in her life Belle tried to redeem herself by participating in humanitarian activities.
摩根大通似乎完全是一维的。 他是一个以自我为中心的人，具有极强的竞争性和侵略性。 他对格林的尊重通常取决于她为他获得他渴望收藏的物品的能力。
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