The Power of Sympathy and The Coquette (Penguin Classics)
Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, Brown€s The Power of Sympathy (1789) and Foster€s The Coquette (1797) were two of the earliest novels published in the United States. Both novels reflect the eighteenth-century preoccupation with the role of women as safekeepers of the young country€s morality.