The Three Musketeers

Edizioni EL – 2013

Series: Classicini

Recommended reading age: 7+

Illustrations by Andrea Parisi

ISBN 978-8847730281

All for one, one for all!

Deftness of hand, a fine brain and the insoucience of a dreamer: this is what it takes to be a musketeer.

D’Artagnan has just turned eighteen when he leaves for Paris.

All he has with him is an old sword, a sorry-looking nag and a head hot enough to make the Seine boil.

The city beckons with duels to the death, damsels snatched during the night, stonehearted assassins and a queen in peril.

But most importantly of all, awaiting him are the three most feared swordsmen in France: three incomparable companions from whom he will never more be separated.

Too big to be a child, yet too young to be deemed a man, he has the proud mien of a young man determined to face life with courage. His high cheekbones and hooked nose give him an impudent air yet his face is both intelligent and lively. His lean strong body is clad in the blue doublet of Gascony and the sword at his side is ready to be seized at the merest ​sign of danger. His nag…his nag does what it can.