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An edition of Oil! (1927)

Oil!

a novel

by

  • ★★★★ 4.3 (6 ratings)
  • 42 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 8 Have read

"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, Hollywood film starlets, and a crusading evangelist people the pages of this lively novel."--BOOK JACKET.

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University of California Press
Language
English
Pages
527

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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 Fiction, general Fiction, historical, general Motion picture industry, fiction Political plays Corrupt practices

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical refereces (p. xi).

Published in
Berkeley
Series
California fiction, California fiction (Series)

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.52
Library of Congress
PS3537.I85 O5 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 527 p. ;
Number of pages
527

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL995933M
ISBN 10
0520207270
LCCN
96034573
OCLC/WorldCat
35192347
LibraryThing
258668
Goodreads
54847

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL115071W

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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 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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