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Oil!: A novel

Author
Upton Sinclair
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
19 hours 41 minutes
ISBN
9781802568110
Published
17 August 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • oil industry
  • capitalism
  • greed
  • social justice
  • labor rights
  • corporate corruption
  • wealth and power
  • political scandal
  • moral conflict
  • American capitalism

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Description

Bunny Ross grows up on California oil money while his father J. Arnold Ross builds an empire that stains everything it touches. Labour, graft, and a son’s conscience under the derricks. Spoken as Sinclair heat when family love and public greed share one name.

Author

Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) wrote The Jungle and a long shelf of muckraking novels in which industry is the villain. The Chicago stockyards novel was meant to convert readers to socialism; it converted them to food reform instead — and still stands as American protest fiction at documentary heat. Sinclair kept going: oil, coal, journalism, politics, a career of books used as weapons.

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