Crux Ansata

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This article is about the book by H. G. Wells. For the ancient Egyptian symbol, see ankh.

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Crux Ansata, subtitle 'An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church' by H. G. Wells is a (96 page) wartime book first published in 1943 by Penguin Books, Hammonsworth (Great Britain): Penguin Special No. 129.^[1] The U. S. edition, jacket front shown, was copyrighted and published in 1944 by Agora Publishing Company, New York, with a portrait frontispiece and an appendix on pages 140-143 of an interview with Wells recorded by Mr. John Rowland, which first appeared March 1944 in the London Literary Guide.^[2] The U.S. edition of 144 pages went into a third printing in August 1946.^[3]

H. G. Wells, then recently retired from his ministerial post (Minister of Allied Propaganda), and living in London under the regular bombings from across the English Channel extensively attacks Pope Pius XII and Roman Catholicism, beginning his polemic with "Why do we not bomb Rome?"^[4]

The book also forms a basic history of the Church and fulfils a positive propaganda role. "^[5]

References

↑ H. G. Wells a comprehensive bibliography. Great Britain: H. G. Wells Society. 1972. pp. page 44. ISBN 0-902291-65-3.
↑ Wells, H. G. Crux Ansata, an indictment of the Roman Catholic Church. New York: Agora Publishing. p. 140.
↑ Wells, H. G. (1946). Crux Ansata, an indictment of the Roman Catholic Church. New York: Agora Publishing. pp. ii–iv.
↑ http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~tdoyle/hgwells/crux.shtml
↑ http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~tdoyle/hgwells/crux.shtml

v t e Works by H. G. Wells

Nonfiction	Anticipations Certain Personal Matters Crux Ansata The Discovery of the Future An Englishman Looks at the World (U.S. title: Social Forces in England and America) Experiment in Autobiography The Fate of Man First and Last Things Floor Games The Future in America: A Search After Realities God the Invisible King In the Fourth Year Little Wars Mankind in the Making Mind at the End of Its Tether The New America: The New World The New World Order New Worlds for Old The Open Conspiracy The Outline of History Russia in the Shadows The Science of Life A Short History of the World The Story of a Great Schoolmaster This Misery of Boots Travels of a Republican Radical in Search of Hot Water War and the Future (North America: Italy, France and Britain at War) The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind World Brain A Year of Prophesying

Novels	All Aboard for Ararat Ann Veronica The Autocracy of Mr. Parham Bealby Boon Brynhild The Bulpington of Blup Christina Alberta's Father The Croquet Player The Dream The First Men in the Moon The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth The History of Mr Polly The Holy Terror In the Days of the Comet The Invisible Man The Island of Dr Moreau Joan and Peter Kipps Love and Mr Lewisham Marriage Meanwhile Men Like Gods A Modern Utopia Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island Mr. Britling Sees It Through The New Machiavelli The Passionate Friends The Research Magnificent The Sea Lady The Secret Places of the Heart The Shape of Things to Come The Sleeper Awakes The Soul of a Bishop Star-Begotten The Time Machine Tono-Bungay The Undying Fire The War in the Air The War of the Worlds The Wheels of Chance The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman The Wonderful Visit The World of William Clissold The World Set Free

Collections	The Country of the Blind and Other Stories The Plattner Story and Others Select Conversations with an Uncle The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents Tales of Space and Time Twelve Stories and a Dream

Short stories	"The Beautiful Suit" "The Chronic Argonauts" "The Country of the Blind" "The Crystal Egg" "A Deal in Ostriches" "A Dream of Armageddon" "The Empire of the Ants" "The Land Ironclads" "Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation" "The Lord of the Dynamos" "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" "The New Accelerator" "The Pearl of Love" "The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper" "The Red Room" "The Star" "The Stolen Body" "A Story of the Days to Come" "A Story of the Stone Age" "Triumphs of a Taxidermist" "The Truth About Pyecraft" "A Vision of Judgment"

Screenplays	Things to Come The Man Who Could Work Miracles The New Faust

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