Download or read book The Ballad of Barnabas Pierkiel written by Magdalena Zyzak and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Possessing romantic delusions of grandeur and desperate to attract a voluptuous Gypsy concubine, a smitten young swineherd from a fictional backward country rides his short-legged steed through a series of scandals and misadventures marked by an eccentric cast of characters.