The unique Dublin Illustrated Edition endorsed by The James Joyce Centre meticulously recreates the 1922 text & has been published to celebrate the Global Bloomsday Gathering a live online reading of Ulysses which starts on 15 June 2013 at the James Joyce centre Ulysses chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day 16 June 1904 Ulysses' stream-of-consciousness technique careful structuring & experimental prose-full of puns parodies & allusions as well as its rich characterisations & broad humour made the book a highly regarded novel in the Modernist pantheon In 1998 the Modern Library ranked Ulysses first on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century