Winnie & Wolf by A.N. Wilson

Published 2007 · 370 pages · 97,000 words · about 8 hours at an average pace · Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

How hard is Winnie & Wolf to read?

Winnie & Wolf scores 57 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.

Vocabulary: 58 out of 100
Wilson vocabulary.
Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
Wilson prose.
Abstraction: 60 out of 100
Hitler, Winifred Wagner.
Information density: 62 out of 100
Nazi Germany, Bayreuth.
Narrative indirection: 55 out of 100
Third person.
Symbolic density: 58 out of 100
Wagner, Hitler.
Ironic distance: 58 out of 100
Historical irony.
Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
Historical ending.
Structural complexity: 55 out of 100
Historical narrative.

How Winnie & Wolf is regarded

Winnie & Wolf holds a literary regard score of 54 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.

About the author

A.N. Wilson