# The great oil octopus

Author: Anonymous

Genre: Standard Oil Company

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78460

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+great+oil+octopus+Anonymous&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

There has lately arisen at Queen Anne’s Gate, on the site of a fine Victorian mansion demolished to make room for it, a gigantic palace, steel-framed in the up-to-date style, clad in Portland stone, towering seven stories high above the neighbouring buildings, looking down upon Buckingham Palace on the one side of the park, and standing on pretty nearly equal terms with the Government Offices and the Houses of Parliament on the other. I was interested to learn that it has been erected for the accommodation of the Anglo-American Oil Company, which is the English branch of the famous Standard Oil Trust of the United States. There were even people who suggested that in view of the action of...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-great-oil-octopus-78460/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-great-oil-octopus-78460/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-great-oil-octopus-78460/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-great-oil-octopus-78460/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-great-oil-octopus-78460/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-great-oil-octopus-78460/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-great-oil-octopus-78460/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-great-oil-octopus-78460/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-great-oil-octopus-78460/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-great-oil-octopus-78460/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-great-oil-octopus-78460/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-great-oil-octopus-78460/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-great-oil-octopus-78460/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-great-oil-octopus-78460/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-great-oil-octopus-78460/chapters/13/index.md)