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The Folktale by Stith Thompson
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32"Thompson believed the folktale to be an important and living art, underlying all literary narrative forms. Most of all he wanted to acquaint readers with most of the great folktales of the world,... -
The Folktale by Deceased Stith Thompson 9781258932626
RRP: £56.95Booksplease Price: £50.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781258932626Author Deceased Stith ThompsonFormat HardbackPage Count 520Imprint Literary Licensing,... -
The Folktale by Deceased Stith Thompson 9781494116507
RRP: £45.95Booksplease Price: £40.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494116507Author Deceased Stith ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 520Imprint Literary Licensing,... -
Tales of the North American Indians by Stith Thompson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81"It is still, and probably will long remain, the most authentic and scholarly collection of Indian mythical tales." -Frances Lee UtleyA classic collection of Indian myths and legends; mythological,... -
One Hundred Favorite Folktales by Stith Thompson 9780253201720
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.54Amongst the one hundred folktales are such familiar tales as The Three Billy-Goats Gruff, Haensel and Gretel, Sleeping Beuaty, and some perhaps not so familiar, The Magic Bird, The Goose Girl, and... -
Motif-Index of Folk-Literature, Volume 1: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folk Tales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books, and Local Legends by Stith Thompson
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.30"This monumental work has now become . . . the indispensable tool of all folk narrative scholars." -Southern Folklore Quarterly"A work of this kind can never be quite complete, but in this work Stith... -
The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition by Maria Tatar 9780691182995
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.05Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Nursery and... -
A Guide to Folktales in the English Language: Based on the Aarne-Thompson Classification System by D. L. Ashliman 9780313259616
Booksplease Price: £85.95Students of folklore and storytellers will find this new guide useful. Ashliman has followed the Aarne-Thompson classification system fairly closely in his geographical classification and his tale... -
Storytelling Encyclopedia: Historical, Cultural, and Multiethnic Approaches to Oral Traditions Around the World David A. Leeming 9781573560252
Booksplease Price: £87.23This is the first definitive reference work to address the substantive elements of oral storytelling, a form of communication that dates back to the dawn of humanity. It is an A to Z collection of... -
Ariadne's Thread: A Guide to International Stories in Classical Literature by William Hansen
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.72From Cinderella to The Boy Who Cried Wolf to The Dragon Slayer to the Judgment of Solomon, certain legends, myths, and folktales are part of the oral tradition in countries around the world. In...