"A whimsical compendium of mythological creature profiles considers the inventions of such literary masters as Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, and Kafka, in a humorously commentated volume that explores the qualities of a range of dragons, unicorns, and othercurious beasts."@en
"The master, writing with sometime collaborator Guerrero, compiled 82 one- and two-page descriptions of everything from "The Borametz" (a Chinese "plant shaped like a lamb, covered with golden fleece") to "The Simurgh" ("an immortal bird that makes its nest in the tree of science") and "The Zaratan" (a particularly cunning whale) in An Anthology of Fantastic Zoology in 1954. He added 34 more (and illustrations) for a 1967 edition, giving it the present title, and it was published in English in 1969. This edition, with fresh translations from Borges's Collected Fictions translator Hurley, and new illustrations from Caldecott-winner Sis, gives the beings new life. They prove the perfect foils for classic Borgesian musings on everything from biblical etymology to the underworld, giving the creatures particularly (and, via Sis, whimsically) vivid and perfectly scaled shape. "We do not know what the dragon means, just as we do not know the meaning of the universe," Borges (1899-1986) and Guerrero write in a preface, and the genius of this book is that it seems to easily contain the latter within it."@en

"The Book of Imaginary Beings"@es
"[El libro de los seres imaginarios.] The book of imaginary beings. ([By] Jorge Luis Borges with Margarita Guerrero.) Revised, enlarged, and translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni in collaboration with the author"@en
"Book of imaginary beings : [By] Jorge Luis Borges, with Margarita Guerrero"@en
"The book of imaginary beings [by] Jorge Luis Borges with Margarita Guerrero. Rev., enl., and translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni in collaboration with the author"@en
"The book of imaginery beings"
"The book of imaginary beings"@en
"The book of imaginary beings"