what is the genre of this novel?
Social and political satire
Oil!
It is a social and political satire skewering the human foibles of all its characters.

what is referred as weird tales? American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine from where did this kind of magazine originate? UNANSWERABLE what are the genres of this last kind of magazine you mentioned? American Old West did it reach any height of popularity? Yes. At their peak of popularity in the 1920s-1940s, the most successful pulps could sell up to one million copies per issue can you name any of its author? Upton Sinclair and who is the writer of the above magazine? H. P. Lovecraft, Seabury Quinn and Clark Ashton Smith when was it published? First issue appeared on newsstands on February 18, 1923 which other editions does it have? A Canadian edition does the very first rather former author involved in politics by any chance? Yes. He was the Socialist party candidate for governor of California in 1926 what else has he written other than in the magazine? Novels such as "King Coal", "The Coal War", "Oil!" and "The Flivver King" is there any unusual type of edition present of this third one? Yes. A "fig-leaf edition" with the offending nine pages blacked out
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Oil! [SEP] Introduction
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 California. It is a social and political satire skewering the human foibles of all its characters. The main character is James Arnold Ross Jr., nicknamed Bunny, son of an oil tycoon. Bunny's sympathetic feelings toward oilfield workers and socialists provoke arguments with his father throughout the story. The novel served as a loose inspiration for the 2007 film "There Will Be Blood".