Stith Thompson (March 7, 1885 – January 10, 1976) was an American folklorist: he has been described as "America's most important folklorist". (From Wikipedia)
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1 additional book about Stith Thompson in the extended shelves:
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Studies in folklore, in honor of Distinguished Service Professor Stith Thompson. (Indiana University Press, 1957), by W. Edson Richmond (page images at HathiTrust)
Books by Stith Thompson:
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Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976: Guide to Composition (Chicago and New York: Scott, Foresman and Co., c1919), also by James Finch Royster (page images at HathiTrust)- Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976: Motif-Index of Folk-Literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books, and Local Legends (revised and enlarged edition; 6 volumes; Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1955-1958) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976: Old English Poems, Translated Into the Original Meter, Together With Short Selections from Old English Prose (Chicago and New York: Scott, Foresman and Co., c1918), also by Cosette Faust Newton
- Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976: The Oral Tales of India (Indiana University Publications folklore series #10; 1958), also by Jonas Balys (page images at HathiTrust)
- Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976, ed.: The Types of the Folk-Tale: A Classification and Bibliography (translated and enlarged by Thompson; FF Communications #74; Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Academia Scientarum Fennica, 1928), by Antti Aarne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Additional books by Stith Thompson in the extended shelves:
- Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976: [Round the levee] (Texas Folklore Society, 1916) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976: Bibliography to the Motif-index of folk-literature (Indiana University Bloomington, 2005), also by Christina Sheley, Moira Smith, and Polly Grimshaw (page images at HathiTrust)
- Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976: British poets of the nineteenth century; poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Landor, Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Fitzgerald, Clough, Arnold, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Morris, Swinburne, Dobson, Henley, Kipling, Housman (B. H. Sanborn & co., 1929), also by Curtis Hidden Page (page images at HathiTrust)
- Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976: European tales among the North American Indians : a study in the migration of folk-tales (Colorado College ;, 1919) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976: The folktale (AMS Press, 1979) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976: The folktale (the Dryden press, 1946) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976: The folktale (Rinehart and Winston, 1946) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976: The folktale (Dryden, 1951) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976: Four symposia on folklore [held at the Midcentury International Folklore Conference, Indiana University, July 21-Aug. 4, 1950] (Indiana University Press, 1953), also by Bloomington Midcentury International Folklore Conference (1950 : Indiana University (page images at HathiTrust)
- Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976: The idea of the soul in Teutonic popular tales and popular ballads (1912) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976: Motif-index of Mediaeval Spanish exempla. ([University of Tennessee Press], 1949), also by John Esten Keller (page images at HathiTrust)
- Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976: The new handbook of English (T. Nelson and sons, 1939), also by Malcolm McLeod (page images at HathiTrust)
- Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976: Remedial exercises in English composition. Form A (D.C. Heath and Co., 1937), also by Henry Holland Carter (page images at HathiTrust)
- Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976: Round the levee (Texas Folk-Lore Society, 1935) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976: Tales of the North American Indians (Harvard university press, 1929) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976: The Truxtun Beale prize essays on Tolstoy's What shall we do then? (University of California press, 1912), also by Lillian Ruth Matthews, Bayard Hale Jones, Newton Bishop Drury, and Sheldon Warren Cheney (page images at HathiTrust)
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