Oil!
Author: Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair’s 1927 novel grew 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. A genial oil developer has a running debate with his son due to the son’s sympathy with the oil workers and socialist organizers…..Read More
10 Books Similar to Oil!
No Country For Old Men
Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, has made a grim discovery - a load of heroin, $2 million in cash and a lot of dead bodies. But when… Continue Reading Posted in: Fictional Works, Suspense Fiction, Treasure Troves
Institutes of the Christian Religion, Vol. 2 of 2
Volume 1 only. Continue Reading Posted in: Religion
The Octopus
Based on an actual bloody dispute in 1880 between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad, this shocking tale of lust for power, greed, and betrayal plays out during the… Continue Reading Posted in: American Fiction, Didactic Fiction, Railroad Stories
The Ghost Writer
The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s, a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary Literature & Fiction, Fiction, Jewish Literature & Fiction, Men Authors
The Jungle
One of the most powerful, provocative and enduring novels to expose social injustice ever published in the United States, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle contains an introduction by Ronald Gottesman in… Continue Reading Posted in: American Writers, Bibliography, Classic American Fiction, Classic British & Irish Fiction, Political Fiction
The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain
Beginning with All the Pretty Horses and continuing through The Crossing and Cities of the Plain, McCarthy chronicles the lives of two young men coming of age in the Southwest… Continue Reading Posted in: Adventure Stories, American, Coming of Age Fiction, Historical Fiction, North America Mexican American Border Region, Teen & Young Adult Classic Literature
World’s End
This multi-generational novel ranges over the history of the Hudson River Valley from the late seventeenth century to the late 1960s with low humor, high seriousness, and magical, almost hallucinatory… Continue Reading Posted in: Family, Historical Fiction, Historical Literary Fiction, History, Literary Sagas
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
Command the murderous chalices!...Drink ye harpooners! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow - Death to Moby Dick!'. So Captain Ahab binds his crew to fulfil… Continue Reading Posted in: Adventure Fiction, Adventure Stories, Literature, Shipwrecks, Teen & Young Adult Classic Literature
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.