> Skip to content
  • Published: 16 May 2023
  • ISBN: 9780143137443
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 608
  • RRP: $39.99

Oil!



Upton Sinclair's searing indictment of fossil fuels that predicts our current warming planet while imagining a greener and more inclusive future
 
A Penguin Classic

Upton Sinclair's searing indictment of fossil fuels that predicts our current warming planet while imagining a greener and more inclusive future

A Penguin Classic

Perhaps most well-known today as the inspiration for Paul Thomas Anderson’s film There Will Be Blood, Upton Sinclair’s novel Oil! burst into the literary limelight amid soaring petroleum profits and gaping inequalities in 1927. By turns an ardent family saga, scintillating potboiler, and anti-capitalist tirade, Oil! ranks among the most important critiques of fossil energy ever printed; and while anticipating how fossil fuels have shaped the dilemmas of our present, it also looks toward a greener, more inclusive, and altogether more livable world yet to come. This edition features a contextual introduction by Michael Tondre that illuminates the novel’s urgent timeliness in our warming world.

  • Published: 16 May 2023
  • ISBN: 9780143137443
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 608
  • RRP: $39.99

About the author

UPTON SINCLAIR

"You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it," wrote Upton Sinclair in 1962. He had spent his own life doing just that through his writing and political activism. Bom September 20,1878, in Baltimore, Maryland, Sinclair began writing dime novels at the age of fifteen. By his death on November 25,1968, he had completed more than eighty books, twenty plays, and hundreds of articles dealing with virtually every social problem in the United States.

Also by UPTON SINCLAIR

See all
penguin pop image
penguin pop image