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The creative heritage of Vasyl Stefanyk is of great cognitive, ideological, aesthetic, historical, and literary significance. He was an innovator in literature, the creator and unsurpassed master of a very concise, dramatic in content and deeply lyrical in sound of the socio-psychological novel.

Stefanyk was the founder of expressionism in Ukrainian literature, a style that implies depicting the inner through the outer, and an interest in deep psychological processes. Drawing his thematic material from the village he knew well, Stefanyk did not see the essence of his work in describing peasant life or raising social issues. For him, the main thing in showing the "peasant's despair" was not domestic or political, but universal aspects of human life.

The beginning of the second period of Stefanyk's work can be considered the short story "Children's Adventure" (written in autumn 1916 and published in early 1917). In 1916, Stefanyk wrote the short story "Maria", which he dedicated to the memory of Ivan Franko. Following "Maria", the writer published six short stories, which, together with the two named works of the second period (Children's Adventure and Maria), made up the fifth collection - "The Land", published in 1926.