Neglected Works; Volume Two contains two plays: "The Sphynx of Kiev" and "Tolstoy's Wife." Both plays reveal how the small battles of hearth, friendship, and love shape history and underlie the effort to remain human in times bedeviled by a brutal destiny.The "Sphynx of Kiev" narrates the sequence of political events leading to the first Russian revolution of 1905. During this time the leading revolutionary party broke into a hard line faction, the...