Ully the Piper

~ A Short Story in the Witch World Saga by Andre Norton

high sorcery 1970 33700

 

Synopsis ~

In the years after the Invader's War, the small village of Coombfrome, which was always isolated at the best of times, seems to have been completely forgotten. Even their overlord, whoever he may be now, fails to collect taxes. When a trader passes through, it's an event. One such trader leaves a pipe behind, to be broken in the hands of the arrogant braggart who dominates the youngsters of the village. But Ully, crippled and confined to a cart, has a talent for mending broken things, and teaches himself to play the now patched-up pipe. Out of spite, the strutting bully who first broke the pipe one day sends Ully's cart out of control down a steep hill, to fetch up at the standing stones near the village. Where Ully finds that someone else might be interested in his music.

 

Bibliography of English Editions ~

  • High Sorcery (1970) Published by ACE, PB, 0-441-33701-, $0.60, 156pg ~ cover by Gray Morrow (Re-released in 2012)
  • Fantasy Stories (1994) Edited by Diana Wynne Jones, Published by Kingfisher, HC, 1-856-97233-X, £10.99, 256pg ~ UK printing ~ cover by Wayne Anderson

Contains:
    7 • The Peasant and the Devil • [KHM (Kinder und Hausmärchen) • 189] • (unknown) • short fiction by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (trans. of Der Bauer und der Teufel 1843) [as by The Brothers Grimm]
    9 • Boris Chernevsky's Hands • (1982) • short story by Jane Yolen
    20 • The Hobgoblin's Hat (excerpt from Finn Family Moomintroll) • (1950) • short fiction by Tove Jansson
    31 • Ully the Piper • [Witch World Universe] • (1970) • short story by Andre Norton
    45 • Milo Conducts the Dawn (excerpt from The Phantom Tollbooth) • (1961) • short fiction by Norton Juster
    52 • Who Goes Down This Dark Road? • (1979) • short story by Joan Aiken
    60 • The House of Harfang (excerpt from The Silver Chair) • (1953) • short fiction by C. S. Lewis
    80 • Martha in the Witch's Power (excerpt from Hobberdy Dick) • (1955) • short fiction by Katharine M. Briggs [as by K. M. Briggs]
    96 • Prince Delightful and the Flameless Dragon • (1991) • short story by Isaac Asimov
    116 • The Box of Delights (excerpt) • [Kay Harker] • (1935) • short fiction by John Masefield
    123 • The Amazing Flight of the Gump (excerpt from The Land of Oz) • [Oz] • (1904) • short fiction by L. Frank Baum
    137 • On the Great Wall • (1906) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
    156 • The Waking of the Kraken (excerpt from Which Witch?) • (1979) • short fiction by Eva Ibbotson
    166 • The Caves in the Hills (excerpt from Henrietta's House) • (1968) • short fiction by Elizabeth Goudge
    182 • Bigger than the Baker's Boy • (1902) • short story by E. Nesbit
    202 • Jermain and the Sorceress (excerpt from The Seven Towers) • (1984) • short fiction by Patricia C. Wrede
    208 • Una and the Red Cross Knight • (unknown) • short story by Andrew Lang
    230 • What the Cat Told Me • (1994) • novelette by Diana Wynne Jones

 

  • Fantasy Stories (1994) Edited by Diana Wynne Jones, Published by Kingfisher US, TP, 1-856-97982-2, $6.95, 256pg ~ cover by Wayne Anderson
  • Fantasy Stories (1995) Edited by Diana Wynne Jones, Published by Kingfisher, PB, 1-856-97209-7, £4.99, 256pg ~ UK printing ~ cover by Wayne Anderson
  • Fantasy Stories (1998) Edited by Diana Wynne Jones, Published by Kingfisher, TP, 1-856-97209-7, £5.99, 256pg ~ UK printing ~ cover by Les Edwards
  • Fantasy Stories (2003) Edited by Diana Wynne Jones, Published by Kingfisher US, TP, 0-753-45637-0, $6.95, 256pg ~ cover by Les Edwards
  • Spellbound (2007) Edited by Diana Wynne Jones, Published by Roaring Brook Press, 0-753-46144-7, 280pg ~ cover by unknown

 

Non-English Editions ~

  • As Ully il pifferaio [Ully the piper] (1979) Published in Bologna, Italy; by Libra Editrice, Saturno. Collana di fantascienza n. 19, 2.500 lir, 186pg ~ translated by Roberta Rambelli ~ cover by Allison ~ Italian title Le terre degli incantesimi [The lands of spells]

Russian Omnibus Editions ~ 

  • (2021) Published in Moscow, by Azbuka-Atticus, HC, 978-538-91915-25; 608pg ~ cover by E. Salamashenko ~ Russian title Колдовской мир. Тайны Колдовского мира [The Witch's World. Secrets of the Witchcraft World] limited to 4000 copies

Contains:

    • "The Jargoon Pard" as "Magic belt" ~ translation by G. Solovyova, pp. 5-166
    • "Zarsthor's Bane" as "The Curse of Zarstor" ~ translation by G. Solovyova, pp. 167-290
    • "Lore of the Witch World" as "Secrets of the Witchcraft World"
      • "Spider Silk" as "Spider silk" ~ translation by by G. Solovyova, pp. 293-334
      • "Sand Sister" as "Sand Sisters" ~ translation by by G. Solovyova, pp. 335-383
      • "Falcon Blood" as "Falcon Blood" ~ translation by by G. Solovyova, pp. 384-400
      • "Legacy from Sorn Fen" as "The Legacy of the Thorn Quagmires" ~ translation by G. Solovyova, pp. 401-411
      • "Sword of Unbelief" as "Sword of Disbelief" ~ translation by by G. Solovyova, pp. 412-442
      • "The Toads of Grimmerdale" as "Grimmerdale Toads" ~ translation by by G. Solovyova, pp. 443-497
      • "Changeling" ~ translation by by G. Solovyova, pp. 498-526
    • "Ully the Piper" as "Ully-piper" ~ translation by by G. Solovyova, pp. 527-537
    • "One Spell Wizard" as "The Talentless Mage" ~ translation by G. Solovyova, pp. 538-551
    • "Were-Wrath" as "Werewolf's Wrath" ~ translation by G. Solovyova, pp. 552-584
    • "Earthborn" as "Daughter of the Earth" ~ translation by G. Solovyova, pp. 585-605

See Also: The Sorcerer's Conspectus entry for this title.

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