![It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction. . . Without [Theodore] Dreiser's treading out a path for naturalism none of us would have had a chance to publish.](/assets/img/quote-photos/it-was-the-ponderous-battering-ram-of-his-novels-that-opened-the-way-through-the.jpg)
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