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May 20, 2021, 3:49 a.m.
- Description
- Once the Hodja is a book of Hodja stories written by Alice Geer Kelsey, illustrated by Frank Dobias, published by David McKay Company Inc, New York (first edition 1943). Mrs. Kelsey writes in her acknowledgements: "Apologies go to the many people who could have written the Hodja stories better than I. My only excuse is that I spent nearly twenty years saying `Someone ought to write the Nasr-ed-Din Hodja stories for American boys and girls,' before I decided that I would have to do it myself." I feel it is a terrible shame that Mrs. Kelsey's wonderful rendition of classic Hodja stories - one of the first in the English language - has already been long out of print, and so I have posted the stories here, which I think would be in accordance with the author's wishes.
