7 Fascinating Facts About the First American Novel
On this particular date in 1789 , Boston bookseller Isaiah Thomas and Company publishedThe Power of Sympathy : or , The Triumph of Nature . unloose just six years after the official oddment of the Revolutionary War , the book — a cautionary tome , published intwo book , about the danger of give in to passion and featuring unwitting incest and suicide — is generally study to be the first American novel ....