- Fiction, Petroleum industry and trade, Petroleum industry and trade in fiction, Southern california in fiction
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.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Upton Sinclair
- First published
- 1927
- Pages
- 527
- Publisher
- Pràce, A. & C. Boni, T. Werner Laurie...
- Editions
- 58
- Language
- hun, srp, dan, German
- ISBN
- 9781429596404
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Upton Sinclair, Jr., was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author who wrote over 90 books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the 20th century, acquiring particular fame for his 1906 muckraking novel The Jungle. It exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. --Wikipedia
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