2011 Reprint of 1922 First Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The Martino Reprint is a exact facsimile of the original 1922 Edition published in Paris by Sylvia Beach in 1922. One of the most important works of Modernist literature Ulysses has been called a demonstration and summation of the entire modernist movement. Ulysses chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day 16 June 1904 (the day of J