Oil!
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781429596398 (1429596392)
Publish date: December 18th 2007
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 560
Edition language: English
This was quite a readable (listenable) story for a novel set (and written) in the Twenties. Upton Sinclair was a prolific author who knew how to spin a tale, even while he was trying to expose the evils of capitalism. Sinclair's socialist beliefs are very much in evidence, but don't let that put you...
Oil! is not The Jungle, but it's damn close. In keeping with the politically-minded storyteller's way of using a fictional narrative to drive home a point, Sinclair has this time chosen a California oil baron and his idealistic son as the vehicles with which to air his own beliefs about corporate co...
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