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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aBrown, William Hill,
_d1765-1793
245 1 4 _aThe power of sympathy: or, The triumph of nature. Founded in truth.
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2022
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page on this work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Sympathy
500 _aFirst published anonymously; 1894 edition was erroneously ascribed to Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton.
500 _aRelease date is 2022-10-28
508 _aRichard 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)
520 _a"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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cUnited States: Cupples & Patterson, 1894
653 _aMan-woman relationships -- Fiction
700 1 _aMorton, Sarah Wentworth,
_d1759-1846
700 1 _aLittlefield, Walter,
_d1867-1948
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/cu31924021986306
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69250
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