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An edition of Oil! (1927)

Oil!

a novel

by

  • ★★★★ 4.40 ·
  • 5 Ratings
  • 27 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 7 Have read

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 father. Senators, small investors, oil magnates, a Hollywood film star, and a crusading evangelist people the pages of this lively novel.

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Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
548

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Subjects
Fiction, Petroleum industry and trade, Petroleum industry and trade in fiction, Southern california in fiction, Motion picture industry, Motion picture industry in fiction, Drama, California in fiction, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, Government policy, American fiction (fictional works by one author), California, fiction, Fiction, political, Political fiction
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Southern California, California

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Oil!
December 18, 2007, Penguin (Non-Classics), Penguin Books
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Oil!: a novel
2007, Penguin Books
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Öl!: Roman
1986, Rowohlt
in German
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Peṭroleum: roman
1928, Sh. Goldfarb
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1928, Sh. Goldfarb
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Oil!: a novel
1927, The author
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Oil!: a novel
1927, Albert & Charles Boni
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Oil!: A novel
1927, A. & C. Boni
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Oil!
1927, Albert & Charles Boni
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Oil!
1927, Albert & Charles Boni
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Edition Notes

Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.52
Library of Congress
PS3537.I85 O5 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
548 p. ;
Number of pages
548

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Open Library
OL18016662M
Internet Archive
oilnovel00sinc
ISBN 13
9780143112266
LCCN
2007042749
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258668
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