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Oil!Upton Sinclair

Oil!

Upton Sinclair
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Sinclair's 1927 novel did for California's oil industry what The Jungle did for Chicago's meat-packing factories. In Oil! Upton Sinclair fashioned a novel out of the oil scandals of the Harding administration, providing in the process a detailed picture of the development of the oil industry in Southern California. Bribery of public officials, class warfare, and international rivalry over oil production are the context for Sinclair's story of a genial independent oil developer and his son, whose sympathy with the oilfield workers and socialist organizers fuels a running debate with his…

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22 editions · 2 languages
  • Paperback · English · 2023
    Penguin Classics · 576 pages · 9780143137443
  • Ebook · English · 2009
    Penguin Group UK · 9780141919515
  • Audiobook · English · 2008
    Blackstone Pub · 9781433268625
  • Hardcover · English · 2008
    Frederick Ellis · 544 pages · 9781934568453
  • Audiobook · English · 2008
    Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc. · 9781433244445
  • Ebook · English · 2008
    Penguin Group USA, Inc. · 9781429596404
FictionPetroleum industry and tradePetroleum industry and trade in fictionSouthern california in fictionMotion picture industryMotion picture industry in fictionDramaCalifornia in fiction