Winnie and Wolf: A Novel

Winnie and Wolfis the story of the remarkable relationship between Winifred Wagner and Adolf Hitler that took placenbsp;during the years between the two world wars, as seen through the eyes of the secretary at the Wagner House in Bayreuth. nbsp;Winifred, an English girl, was brought up in an orphanage and married at the age of eighteen to the son of Germanys most controversial genius. She is a passionate Germanophile, a Wagnerian dreamer, and a Teutonic patriot. In the debacle of the post-Versailles world, the Wagner family hopes for the coming of a Parsifal, a mystic idealist and redeemer. In 1923, they meet their Parsifala wild-eyed Viennese opera fanatic named Adolf Hitler. He has already made a name for himself in some sections of German society through rabble-rousing and street-corner speeches. It is Winifred, though, who truly believes in him. Both have known the humiliation of poverty and a deep anger at the society that excluded them. They find in each other an unusual kinship that begins with a passion for opera. nbsp;In A. N. Wilsons boldest and most ambitious novel yet, the world of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany is brilliantly recreated, and forms the backdrop to this incredible bond, which ultimately reveals the remarkable capacity of human beings to deceive themselves.

Author: A. N. Wilson

Language: English

Edition: 1st

Binding: Hardcover

Pages: 368

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Publication Date: 2008-11-11