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Winnie and Wolf: A Novel
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Winnie and Wolf Winnie and Wolf is the story of the remarkable relationship between Winifred Wagner and Adolf Hitler that took place during the years between the First and Second World Wars, as seen through the eyes of the secretary at Wahnfried, the Wagner house in Bayreuth.
Winifred, an English girl, was brought up in an orphanage and married at the age of eighteen to the son of Germany’s 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 Parsifal—a 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. Both find in each other an unusual kinship that begins with a passion for opera, and almost immediately the two strike up an intimate friendship: she is Winnie, and he is Wolf.
In A. N. Wilson’s 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.
Winifred, an English girl, was brought up in an orphanage and married at the age of eighteen to the son of Germany’s 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 Parsifal—a 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. Both find in each other an unusual kinship that begins with a passion for opera, and almost immediately the two strike up an intimate friendship: she is Winnie, and he is Wolf.
In A. N. Wilson’s 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.
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