The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature

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The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature (1789) is an eighteenth-century American sentimental novel written in epistolary form by William Hill Brown, widely considered to be the first American novel.[1] Published by Isaiah Thomas in Boston on January 21, 1789,[2] The Power of Sympathy was Brown's first novel. The characters' struggles illustrate the dangers of seduction and the pitfalls of giving in to one's passions, while advocating the moral education of women and the use of rational thinking as ways to prevent the consequences of such actions.

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