{"product_id":"oil-9780143137443","title":"Oil!","description":"\u003cb\u003eUpton Sinclair's searing indictment of fossil fuels that predicts our current warming planet while imagining a greener and more inclusive future\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePerhaps most well-known today as the inspiration for Paul Thomas Anderson's film \u003ci\u003eThere Will Be Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, Upton Sinclair's novel \u003ci\u003eOil!\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eOil!\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eUpton Sinclair\u003c\/b\u003e (1878-1968) was born in Baltimore. At age fifteen, he began writing a series of dime novels in order to pay for his education at the City College of New York. He was later accepted to do graduate work at Columbia, and while there he published a number of novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Arthur Stirling\u003c\/i\u003e (1903) and \u003ci\u003eManassas\u003c\/i\u003e (1904). Sinclair's breakthrough came in 1906 with the publication of \u003ci\u003eThe Jungle\u003c\/i\u003e, a scathing indictment of the Chicago meat-packing industry. His later works include \u003ci\u003eWorld's End\u003c\/i\u003e (1940), \u003ci\u003eDragon's Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e (1942), which won him a Pulitzer Prize, \u003ci\u003eO Shepherd, Speak!\u003c\/i\u003e (1949) and \u003ci\u003eAnother Pamela\u003c\/i\u003e (1950). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Tondre\u003c\/b\u003e (introduction) is an Associate Professor at Stony Brook University and author of two books: \u003ci\u003eThe Physics of Possibility: Victorian Fiction, Science, and Gender\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), and \u003ci\u003eOil\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming). His writing has also appeared in journals such as \u003ci\u003ePMLA\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eELH\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVictorian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVictorian Literature and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNineteenth-Century Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, and has recently received the 2018 Schachterle Essay Prize (from the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts) and the 2019 Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Article Prize.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613171912978,"sku":"9780143137443","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_22dc7d4f-dc6b-4d81-948a-38d020a9aa8a.jpg?v=1748515866","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/oil-9780143137443","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}