
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...

The classic novel that inspired the Academy award-winning film, There Will Be Blood. Penguin Books is proud to now be the sole publisher of Oil!, the classic 1927 novel by Upton Sinclair. After writing The Jungle, his scathing indictment of the...

Published in 1927, this masterpiece of realist fiction portrays a gripping tale of corruption and greed alongside a son's coming-of-age story. The basis for Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 film There Will Be Blood , the saga follows the rise of an oil magnate through the eyes of...

Most famous for inspiring the Oscar-winning film There Will Be Blood, the novel Oil chronicles the endeavors of James and his son James "Bunny" Junior in the corrupt oil business of southern California in the early 1900's. The book begins at the Watkin's family goat ranch,...


Discover the story of Oil with this striking collector's edition from Union Square & Co.'s Signature Editions series The classic texts that shaped our culture feature exclusive cover art by distinguished artist Malika Favre. Her bold, graphic style gives each classic...

Oil! is a novel by Upton Sinclair, first published in 1926-27 and told as a third-person narrative, with only the opening pages written in the first person. The book was written in the context of the Harding administration's Teapot Dome Scandal and takes place in Southern...

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...


This book is the inspiration for the Academy Award-nominated film, There Will Be Blood, starring Daniel Day-Lewis. As he did so masterfully in The Jungle, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Upton Sinclair interweaves social criticism with human tragedy to create...


First published in 1927, "Oil!" is an unflinching portrayal of greed and betrayal by Pulitzer Prize winning author Upton Sinclair. Famous for his groundbreaking work "The Jungle", which exposed the horribly unsafe conditions in the American meatpacking industry, Sinclair turned...

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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! is a novel by Upton Sinclair, first published in 1926-27 and told as a third-person narrative, with only the opening pages written in the first person. The book was written in the context of the Harding administration's Teapot Dome Scandal and takes place in Southern...

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Upton Sinclair's "Oil " plunges into the turbulent world of 1920s Southern California, exposing the dark underbelly of the burgeoning oil industry. Through a sweeping narrative, Sinclair delivers a potent work of social criticism, dissecting the era's rampant political corruption...

Upton Sinclair's "Oil " plunges into the turbulent world of 1920s Southern California, exposing the dark underbelly of the burgeoning oil industry. Through a sweeping narrative, Sinclair delivers a potent work of social criticism, dissecting the era's rampant political corruption...