Romeo and Juliet

About this book

This is the most famous of all Shakespeare´s plays - a story of passionate young love. What´s in a name? Does it really matter if you are called Montague or Capulet? When Romeo, son of Lord and Lady Montague, falls in love with the most beautiful girl he´s ever seen, he finds out that it does matter. It makes all the difference in the world, because both families hate each other bitterly. For a time, Romeo and Juliet manage to keep their love secret. But when Romeo is sent away from Verona, and arrangements are made for Juliet to marry Paris, a friend of her father´s, hope begins to die. Can any of their friends help the young lovers to be together for ever?