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My Apprenticeship has long been cited as an important and fascinating source for students of social attitudes and conditions in late Victorian Britain, and this new paperback edition makes it once more generally available. Beatrice Webb, the eighth of the nine daughters of the railway magnate Richard Potter, was an exceptionally able person, with a zest for observation, a knack for pointed comment, and a habit of self-examination – all of which gifts she put to good account in the private diary she kept all her life and in this brilliant volume of autobiography which she based on that diary. It tells the story of a craft and a creed, of a withdrawn but talented girl, growing up in a prosperous household, who turned to social investigation and social reform, moving between the two starkly contrasted worlds of West End smart society and East End squalor. She served a hard apprenticeship, as a woman as well as a professional worker, and in a new introduction to this edition Norman MacKenzie describes the severe personal stresses which lay behind her life of dedication to social improvement, particularly her frustrated passion for Joseph Chamberlain and the troubled courtship which preceded her marriage to Sidney Webb. This volume ends on the eve of that marriage, when she was about to begin her famous and astonishingly productive collaboration with her husband. As historians, publicists and Fabian politicians the Webbs were pioneers of the modern age. The ensuring volume, which chronicles their mature career and was appropriately titled Our Partnership, is also published by the Cambridge University Press in collaboration with the London School of Economics and Political Science.
作者简介
Martha Beatrice Potter Webb (22 January 1858 - 30 April 1943) was an English socialist, economist and reformer.
Beatrice Webb was born in Gloucester, the granddaughter of a Radical MP, Richard Potter. In 1882, she had a relationship with Radical politician Joseph Chamberlain, by then a Cabinet minister. This was a failure, and in 1890 she was introduced to Sidney Webb, whose help she sought in research she was carrying out for her cousin, Charles Booth, whose Life and Labour of the People of London categorised the poorest into class A: "Vicious: borderline semi criminal" or class B "Casual earnings, very poor. The labourers do not get as much as three days work a week, but it is doubtful if many could or would work full time for long together if they had the opportunity". Marrying Sidney in 1892, the two remained together. Beatrice was an active partner in all Sidney's political and professional activities, including the organisation of the Fabian Society and the establishment of the London School of Economics. She co-authored books such as the History of Trade Unionism (1894), and was co-founder of the New Statesman magazine (1913).
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从文学流派的角度来看，这本书巧妙地游走在现实主义的坚实地面和某种近乎象征主义的空灵感之间，形成了一种非常独特的阅读张力。书中塑造的“导师”形象尤其令人难忘，他不是传统意义上高大全的英雄，反而有着诸多难以言喻的怪癖和不近人情的固执，正是这些“不完美”，才使得他的教诲显得更加真实可信。故事并未将焦点集中在外部世界的宏大叙事上，而是将所有的冲突和主题都内化到了角色的精神领域。我注意到，作者几乎所有的精彩笔墨都用在了描绘人物在面对抉择时的内心挣扎——是遵循既有的传统，还是勇敢地探索未知？这种内在的哲学思辨，贯穿始终，让这本书的厚度远超一个简单的“学徒成长记”的范畴。它更像是一部关于“自我定义”的寓言，探讨了在社会期望与个人理想之间，如何找到一个能让自己真正安顿下来的支点。这种深刻的内省探讨，让我合上书后，花了好长时间才从角色的心境中抽离出来。
评分这本书的语言风格如同陈年的佳酿，初尝时或许觉得醇厚得有些难以招架，但细品之下，那股子回甘的复杂层次感便会逐渐显现出来。作者似乎对古典文学有着深厚的根基，遣词造句之间充满了韵律感和一种老派的优雅，但幸运的是，这种“雅”并未流于空洞的辞藻堆砌，而是紧密地服务于人物的内心活动和环境的渲染。我特别留意了书中几次关于“时间流逝”的描写，那种处理时间的方式，不是简单的线性叙述，而是通过光线的变化、季节的更迭，以及人物之间眼神的交汇来体现，充满了诗意的留白。不过，对于习惯了快节奏叙事的现代读者来说，这本书的开篇可能会略显缓慢，需要一定的耐心去适应它那种慢条斯理、步步为营的铺陈。但请相信我，一旦你适应了作者设定的频率，你就会发现，正是这种“慢”，成就了故事的厚重感和历史的沧桑感，它不是在讲述一个故事，更像是在重现一段被时光打磨过的记忆，充满了对逝去时代的缅怀与敬意。
评分我很少读到一部作品，能将“技艺”本身提升到如此形而上的哲学高度。这本书对于具体操作流程的描述，严谨得像是教科书的注解，无论是对于材料特性的理解，还是对工具的细致保养，都展现出作者对该领域知识储备的深不可测。然而，高明之处在于，作者并没有让这些技术细节淹没故事的情感核心。相反，每一个技术动作的完成，都被赋予了情感的重量——每一次精准的切割，都代表着情绪的克制；每一次失败的尝试，都折射出对完美的渴望。这种“手艺即修行”的理念，构建了全书的基调。这本书的叙事视角变化精妙，有时是完全客观的第三人称，有时却突然切换到一种近乎内心独白的流畅感，让人感觉既像是在旁观一个传奇的诞生，又像是直接读取了当事人的灵魂碎片。对于那些对外行来说略显枯燥的“工作场景”，作者成功地将其转化为了一种近乎仪式感的体验，极大地拓宽了普通读者对“专业”二字的理解边界。
评分这本书最令我感到惊喜的是它对“传承”这一古老主题的全新诠释。它没有落入那种怀旧的、对“黄金时代”的盲目赞美，反而以一种审慎和批判的眼光来审视师徒关系中的权力动态与情感依附。主人公与导师之间的互动充满了张力，有时是全然的信赖与依赖，有时却是带着青春期特有的反叛与疏离。作者非常巧妙地处理了这种复杂的依赖关系，没有简单地将导师塑造成无所不能的圣人，而是展现了他作为个体所固有的局限性与时代错位感。我尤其赞赏那些关于“出师”的段落，那不仅仅是技术上的独立，更是精神上的“断裂”。主人公最终必须学会的，是如何带着所学到的知识，去挑战和超越那些曾经塑造了他的既有范式。这种超越，是痛苦的、必然的，也是让整个故事在情感层面达到巅峰的驱动力。这本书的结局是开放式的，它没有提供一个圆满的句号，而是留下了一片广阔的天地，让人在合书之后，仍能感受到那份关于未来的无限可能性与责任感。
评分这本书的叙事结构简直是一场迷宫探险，作者仿佛带着一种近乎偏执的细致，描绘了主人公从一个懵懂的学徒到最终蜕变的心路历程。我尤其欣赏作者对于细节的捕捉能力，那些日常琐碎的场景，比如清晨阳光穿过布满灰尘的窗棂洒在地板上的光影，或是师傅在打磨工具时发出的那种特有的、带着金属摩擦的低沉声响，都被刻画得入木三分。这种细腻的笔触，让阅读体验变得异常沉浸，我感觉自己仿佛就站在那个弥漫着木屑和汗味的工坊里，亲眼目睹着每一次技艺的锤炼与心性的打磨。当然，故事的节奏把握得也相当到位，高潮和低谷的转换处理得非常自然，没有那种刻意为之的戏剧冲突，一切都像是水到渠成，是生活本身应有的波澜。读完后，我久久不能平静，那份对“匠心”的执着追求，那种近乎苦修般的自我要求，深深地触动了我，让我开始反思自己对待日常事务的态度，这本书无疑是近些年来我读到过的，在“成长”主题上处理得最为深刻和真挚的作品之一，它没有给出廉价的成功学口号，而是展现了通往精通的漫长、孤独且充满自我怀疑的道路。
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