Oil!

There Will be Blood

Upton Sinclair (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

560 Seiten

2008
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-14-103170-5 (ISBN)

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Provides a picture of the development of the oil industry in Southern California. This novel features senators, small investors, oil magnates, a Hollywood film star, and a crusading evangelist.

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.

Upton Sinclair (1878-1968), novelist and journalist, is best known for his novel about the Chicago meatpacking industry, The Jungle. A paperback edition of his I, Candidate for Governor is available from California.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.2.2008
Reihe/Serie	Penguin Modern Classics
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 197 mm
Gewicht	388 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10	0-14-103170-0 / 0141031700
ISBN-13	978-0-14-103170-5 / 9780141031705
Zustand	Neuware