The Secret Agent

by Robin Waterfield (Adaptor), Joseph Conrad

Mr. Verloc is an anarchist and he wants to see a revolution in Britain. He is a lazy man and just wants to look after his shop. Mr. Vladimir orders him to bomb the Greenwich Observatory in London. Mr. Verloc does not want to bomb this building. A Penguin Level 3 reader with a vocabulary of 1050 words.

32 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1998

About the author

Robin Anthony Herschel Waterfield (born 1952) is a British classical scholar, translator, editor, and writer of children's fiction. Waterfield was born in 1952, and studied Classics at Manchester University, where he achieved a first class degree in 1974. He went on to research ancient Greek philosophy at King's College, Cambridge until 1978, after which he became a lecturer at Newcastle University and then St Andrews University. He later became a copy-editor and later a commissioning editor for Penguin Books. He is now a self-employed writer, living in southern Greece, where he has Greek citizenship.

Reviews

[Roomiyoo]

easy, short and

[Kiko Kawashima]

1. Penguin readers Level3
2. about 1 hour 30 minutes
3. anarchist / revolution / Britain / lazy man / bomb / building
4. a.Mr Verloc is an anarchist and he wants to see a revolution in Britain. But he is a lazy man and just wants to look after his shop. Then Mr Vladimir orders him to does not want to bomb this building. Will he do the job? And what will happen when it all goes wrong?
b.this is a story about a one secret agent. The storekeeper Varrocc surname of the bookstore was in the group of this wills and the anarchism person who talk hot every night, but to tell the truth, he was a double spy who ran to both a Russian embassy and the hollow tooth heat police inspector. One day, Russia side commands the duty by which the symbol barrel Greenwich observatory of the prosperity of the Daiei Empire is blasted to him. The Varrocc takes brother in law Steve, who has the intellectual disability to take to me, faces Greenwich, and an unexpected tragedy.
5.The start was not so interesting but it had gradually become interesting. Therefore, the end was able to finish being read at a dash. This story’s end has complete reversal, so this story was very interesting.

[Namiko]

I don't really understand what Mr. Verloc does but I enjoyed the plot and the ending. However, I wanted Winnie to be happy.