The Brown, William Hill 1765-1793 creator Morton, Sarah Wentworth 1759-1846 Littlefield, Walter 1867-1948 text utu 2022 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) 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) Originally published: United States: Cupples & Patterson, 1894 Man-woman relationships -- Fiction PS United States: Cupples & Patterson, 1894 07032316 https://archive.org/details/cu31924021986306 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69250 https://archive.org/details/cu31924021986306 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69250 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134613.0 69250