Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare's most read work, the tale of two "star-crossed lovers" and their doomed love.  It  can boast of being so well accepted by readers of all ages and time periods, perhaps because it's story is so genuine, so ever present.  Everyone can identify with the story, either with the love the pair feels for each other, or with the way their love seems doomed and is opposed on all sides.  Despite the fact it is a tragedy, the beauty of the work cannot be ignored and therefore must be read by everyone. 

"She speaks:

O, speak again, bright angel!  for thou art

As glorious to this night, being o'er my head,

As a winged messenger of heaven

Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes

Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him

When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds

And sails upon the bosom of the air."