The story centres on Charles Marlow, who narrates most of the book. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the '100 best novels' and part of the Western canon. Before its 1903 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Download cover art Download CD case insert Heart of Darkness (version 2)