The Sundial by Shirley Jackson

The Sundial by Shirley JacksonAunt Fanny knows when the world will end. Aunt Fanny has always been somewhat peculiar. No one is surprised that while the Halloran clan gathers at the crumbling old mansion for a funeral she wanders off to the secret garden. But when she reports the vision she had there, the family is engulfed in fear, violence, and madness. For Aunt Fanny's long dead father has given her the precise date of the final cataclysm!

You can plan everything

Chanakya was an economist

under the pretense of battling Maoist guerillas

while the best advice the West could offer sold its allies in South-East Asia down the economic river

a sister mourns her invisible brother whom only she can still see

Death in Venice is a story of obsession

They are the precursors of all we do

that they can tell you the future

published in 1937

and make intelligent use of constraints

In Troy you will find heroism and hatred

Liddell Hart's last work as well as his magnum opus