49).
             Conrad's work failure is a fact of human existence, and every ideal contains the possibilities
             Most of Conrad's greatest works take place on a ship or in the backwaters of
             civilization. After assessing Conrad's works, Douglas Hewitt, a renown critic, claimed that "
             a ship or a small outpost offered an isolated environment where Conrad could develop his
             already complex moral problems without unnecessary entanglements that might obscure the
             concentration of tragedy". Nostromo is widely recognized as Conrad's most ambitious
             novel. An account of a revolution in the fictitious South American country of Costaguana,
             Nostromo examines the ideals, motivations, and failures of several participants in that confict
             (Hewitt 60). Conrad himself referred to "Nostromo" as his "largest canvas", and many
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