02144cam a22003733u 4500 69250 UtSlPG 20260610134613.0 m cr n 260607r20221894utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d 07032316 UtSlPG en iso639-1 PS Brown, William Hill, 1765-1793 The power of sympathy: or, The triumph of nature. Founded in truth. Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2022 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page on this work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Sympathy First published anonymously; 1894 edition was erroneously ascribed to Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton. Release date is 2022-10-28 Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature. Founded in truth." by William Hill Brown is an epistolary novel published in 1789, widely considered the first American novel. Thomas Harrington falls in love with Harriot Fawcet and proposes marriage, but a devastating family secret emerges that makes their union forbidden. Through letters between characters, the novel explores the dangers of seduction and unchecked passion while advocating for moral education and rational thinking. The story illustrates how excessive sympathy and emotion can lead to tragic consequences in the new American republic. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: United States: Cupples & Patterson, 1894 Man-woman relationships -- Fiction Morton, Sarah Wentworth, 1759-1846 Littlefield, Walter, 1867-1948 https://archive.org/details/cu31924021986306 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69250 110046 110046