sentences:  "Karo vaizdai" (Scenes of War) were written during World War I and focused on the effects of war on the civilian population (first published in 1915).The best known story from this period is "Rimai ir Nerimai" (The Rimas and Nerimas Families), a tragicomedy depicting a comic rivalry between two families that is brought to an end by a common tragedy (their sons are mobilized into the Imperial Russian Army and killed in the war).He wrote the two-volume (first volume in two parts devoted to Samogitia, the second volume to Aukštaitija) epic novel "Pragiedruliai" (Cloud Clearing) in 1917–1920.