This is a list of short stories, feuilletons, and prose pieces written by the Swiss author Robert Walser. It intends to include all non-novel prose works that have been translated into English and published in collections, and is organized by the date of English collection. Because Walser's short non-novel prose works do not neatly fit the common categories of short story or non-fiction, the article title uses the term "short story" only for broad convenience. (Also see: main article discussion of Walser's format and genre.)

Notation Dates. Dates for book titles in the section headers refer to the (English) book's year of publication. Dates in parentheses for listed pieces indicate the year of original publication in German or the date of composition (if unpublished in Walser's lifetime). Items below with two years refer to an earler German publication in a periodical and then a later German publication in collected book form.

Titles. Work titles with roman numerals in parentheses mean Walser wrote more than once piece with the same title. Works named with non-standard title capitalization, i.e. lowercase keywords, are works that were never titled or published in Walser's lifetime and are known by their first line.

Groupings. Header groupings below within a given book follow the section titles in the book.

The Walk and Other Stories (1957)

"Frau Wilke" (1918) First appeared in "Kleist in Thun" (1914) First appeared in Geschichten "The Monkey" (1925) First appeared in Die Rose "The Walk" (1917) First appeared in German as its own volume

Selected Stories (1982)

"Response to a Request" (1907) "Flower Days" "Trousers"* "Two Strange Stories" "Balloon Journey" (1913) "Kleist in Thun" "The Job Application" "The Boat" "A Little Ramble" "Helbling's Story" "The Little Berliner" (1914) "Nervous" "The Walk" "So! I've Got You" "Nothing At All" "Kienast" "Poets" "Frau Wilke" "The Street (I) "Snowdrops" "Winter" "The She-Owl" "The Knocking" "Titus" "Vladimir" "Parisian Newspapers" "The Monkey" "Dostoevsky's 'Idiot'" "Am I Demanding?" "The Little Tree" "Stork and Hedgehog" "A Contribution to the Celebration of the Conrad Ferdinand Meyer" "A Sort of Speech" "A Letter to Therese Breitbatch" (1925) "A Village Tale" "The Aviator" "The Pimp" "Masters and Workers" "Essay on Freedom" (1928) "A Biedermeier Story" "The Honeymoon" "Thoughts on Cezanne" (1929)

Masquerade and Other Stories (1990) Headers below follow the named section categories in the book.

Zurich (1896-1905)

”Lake Greifen” (1899) ”From Fritz Kocher’s Essays” (1902) Autumn Professions Country Fair Music ”Two Stories” (1902) "The Genius" "The World" ”Simon” (Subtitled: 'A Love Story') (1903) ”The Gloves” (1905)

Berlin (1905-1913)

"Good Morning, Giantess!" (1907) "Comedy Evening" (1907) ”Aschinger” (1907) ”Mountain Halls” (1908) ”Market” (1908) ”The Battle of Sempach” (190* "Tableau Vivant" (1909) ”Food (I)” (1911)

Biel (1913-1921)

”Johanna” (1913) ”The Violet” (1915) "Marie" (1916) "Fraulein Knuchel” (1917) ”Basta” (1917) ”Fritz” ”Tobold (II)” (1920) ”The End of the World” (1917) ”I Have Nothing” (1917) ”The Aunt” (1918) ”The Old Fountain” (1919) ”The Dinner Party” (1919) ”The Last Prose Piece” (1919)

Berne (1921-1933)

”The Alphabet” ”Ladies' Shoes” ”Energetic” ”Robert the Rascal” ”Fridolin” ”Should Promises Be Broken?” ”The Elephant” ”The Sweetheart” ”The One of Fairy Tales” ”The Green Spider” ”She's such a nice woman ...” ”Goddess of Poetry ...” ”The Strange Girl” ”The Chinese Woman, the Chinaman” ”A Lump of Sugar” ”fe t'adore” ”Kurt” ”Horse and Bear” ”Sunday Walk (I)” ”Letter to Edith” ”Salon Episode” ”Birthday Prose Piece” ”An Immortal” ”There exist drunken geniuses ...” ”All those who like to laugh while crying...” ”A Flaubert Prose Piece” ”Minotaur” ”Masquerade” ”Sampler Plate” ”Prose Piece” ”Moonlight Story” ”Beneath a Linden” ”I Was Reading in the Forest” ”The Boy (II)” ”A Small Town” ”The Worn-out Man” ”Boat Trip” ”The Girl (II)”

Speaking to the Rose (2005)

"A Note on Van Gogh’s L'Arlesienne" (1912) "Brentano" (1913) "Writing Geschwister Tanner" (1914) "The Back Alley" (1916) "The Story of the Prodigal Son" (1917) "The Cave Man" (1918) "Dreaming" (1920) "Hercules" (1920) "Odysseus" (1920) "Theseus" (1920) "Olga’s Story" (1921) "Something about Goethe" (1921) "The Robber" (1921) "The One and Only" (1924 composition, 1938 published) "Finally she condescended" (1924) "The Fairytale Town" (1925) "The Blind Man" (1925) "And now he was playing, alas, the piano" (1925) "An Essay on Lion Taming" (1925) "These little services" (1925) "Ramses II" (1925) "Spanish Wine Hall" (1925) "It can so happen that" (1926) "Brentano (III)" (1926) "From the Life of a Writer" (1926) "Letter of a European" (1926) "O how in this not large" (1926) "Apparently not a cloud was to be seen" (1926) "The White Lady" (1926) "The Red Thread" (1926) "I would like to be standing" (1927) "Loud expressions of opinion" (1927) "Letter to a Patient Lady" (1927) "The stage-space might have measured" (1927) "Looking out into the landscape" (1927) "It’s still not so long ago" (1927) "Cabaret Scene" (1927) "The idea was a delicate one" (1928) "Execution Story" (1928) "To a Poet" (1928) "She addressed me in the formal style" (1928) "Prose Piece" (1927 or 1929) "My Endeavors" (1928) "I Was Reading Two Stories" (1930) "A Propos the Kissing of a Hand" (1930) "The Avenue" (1931) "Heroic Landscape" (1931) "The Gifted Person" (1932) "The Lake" (1932) ""Kennst Du sie?" (1930, poem. Presented in the Epilogue. I.e. "Do you know her?")

Microscripts (2010)

"Radio" "Swine" "Jaunts elegant in nature now lay in the past" "If I am properly informed as to her circumstances" "What a nice writer I ran into" "The Songstress" "The Demanding Fellow" "Somewhere and somewhen, in a region" "The Train Station" "Crisis" "So here was a book again" "Is it perhaps my immaturity" "The Prodigal Son" "Usually I first put on a prose piece jacket" "My subject here is a victor" "A will to shake that refined individual" "He numbered [...] among the good" "Journey to a Small Town" "The Marriage Proposal" "Autumn" "A Sort of Cleopatra" "On failing to prize the chance to spend time in a cosmopolitan city" "As I was instructed by a book" "Schnapps" "New Year's Page"

Berlin Stories (2012) Pieces are translated by Susan Bernofsky except in three cases where otherwise noted.

The City Streets

"Good Morning, Giantess!" (1907) "The Park" "Friedrichstrasse" (1907) "Market" "Aschinger" "The Metropolitan Street" "Berlin W" "Tiergarten" (1911) "In the Electric Tram" (1908) "The Metropolitan Street"

The Theater

"The Theater, a Dream" "A Person of Possessed of Curiosity" "On the Russian Ballet" "Portrait Sketch" "On Staging Lies" "Do You Know Meier?" "Four Amusements" (1907) "Cowshed" "An Actor"

Berlin Life

"Fabulous" "Mountain Halls" (1908) "The Little Berliner"Translated by Harriett Watts. "Flower Days" "Fire" "Something About the Railway" "What Became of Me" "Food for Thought"

Looking Back

"Remembering the Tales of Hoffman" "The Tanners" "The Secretary" "Frau Bahni" "Full" (1916) "Horse and Woman" "Frau Wilke" "Frau Scheer" "The Millionairess" "A Homecoming in the Snow"

A Schoolboy's Diary (2013) Some of these stories contain multiple sub-titled sections or sub-pieces. This book's count of pieces is sometimes given as over 70.

"Fritz Kocher's Essays" (1904)

Introduction Man Autumn The Fire Friendship Poverty School Politeness Nature Open Topic From the Imagination Careers The Fatherland My Mountain Our City Christmas Instead of an Essay The Fair Music The Essay The Classroom

"Greifen Lake" (1899) "Six Little Stories" (1901; 1914) 1. About a Poet 2. Lute 3. Piano 4., 5. (Untitled) 6. The Beautiful Place) "Letter from a Poet to a Gentleman" (1914) "The Poet" (1914) "The Mountain" (1914) "A Curious City" (1905; 1914) "The Island" (1914) "[Untitled, Crossed Out]" (thought to be 1910) "The Heathstone" (1914) "Two Little Things" (1914) "By the Lake" (1915) "The City" (1915) "Spring" (1915) "A Schoolboy's Diary" (1908; 1914) "Hanswurst" (1914) "School Visit" (1921) "Hat-Chitti" (1915) "The Rowboat" (1914) "Ascent by Night" (1914) "Adventure on a Train" (1914) "Apollo and Diana" (1914) "A Story" (1921) "The New Novel" (1918) "The Letter" (1918) "The Italian Novella" (1917) "Caseman and Houseman" (1917) "The Idol" (1914) "The Cover" (1920) "The Great Talent" (1918) "The Wicked Woman" (1917) "A Son and His Mother" (1917) "Student and Teacher" (1917) "A Model Student" (1925) "The Tale of the Four Happy Fellows" (1925, Unpublished) "Summer in the Country" (1914) "Swift and Sluggish" (1917) "From My Youth" (1919) "All Right Then" (1917) "Reading" (and "The Woman Who Read Gottfried Keller") (1917) "A Devil of a Story" (1916) "The Soldier" (1914) "Something About Soldiers" (1915) "In the Military" (1915) "The German Language" (1919) "Morning and Night" (1920) "Flowers" (1920) "The Little Tree" (1925) "The Last Prose Piece" (1919) "Hans" (1920)

Looking at Pictures (2015) Pieces are translated by Susan Bernofsky except in cases where otherwise noted.

"A Painter" "Apollo and Diana (1914) "The Van Gogh Picture" "A Note on Van Gogh's L'Arlesienne" "Portrait of a Lady" "The Dream (I)" "Watercolors" "Hodler's Beech Forest" "An exhibition of Belgian Art" "The Brueghel Picture" "Catastrophe" "Saul and David (II)" "Diaz's Forest" "The Artist" "Olympia" "Come here, beloved new fresh beautiful tale of a painter" "Scene from the Life of the Painter Karl Stauffer-Bern" "Among other things he painted Madame his Mama" (1925) "Aubrey Beardsley"Translated by Lydia Davis (1926) "A Tiny Little Bit of Watteau" "Watteau" "A Picture by Jean-Honoré Fragonard" "The Kiss (III)" "A Discussion of a Picture"} (1926) "Thoughts on Cezanne"Translated by Christopher Middleton (1929)

Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories (2016)

"A Morning" "She Writes" "An ABC in Pictures by Max Liebermann" (1909) "Sketch (I)" "Poetry (I)" "The Forest" "Lunch Break" (1914) "The Kitten (I)" "A Little Ramble" "The Hand Harp" "The Goddess" "The Look" "The Morning" "Autumn Afternoon" "The Man" "The Grave of the Mother" "Remember This" "On the Terrace" "The Little Sheep" "Spring" "A Little Expedition" "Ash, Needle, Pencil, and Match" "The Young Traveling Salesman" "Toothache" "The Nimble and the Lazy" "No One" "The Murderess" "Lake Piece" "Schwendimann" "The Forsaken One" "Dear Little Swallow" "The Children’s Game" (1919) "The Philosopher" "Page from a Diary (I)" "Tram Ride" "The Kitten (II)" "Latest News" (1921) "News Number Two" (1921) "News Three" (1921) "Fourth News" (1921) "Congratulations on the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Journal Die Schweiz" "How Are You?" "Afternoon Tea" "The Girls" (1924) "Overcoats" "Shadow" "The Lover and the Unknown Girl" "The Tip" "The Keller Novella" "Walser on Walser" "Sacher-Masoch" "Shop Windows (I)" "Gretchen" "Porcelain" "Ludwig" (1925) "It’s All Right, Miss" "Essay on Bismarck" "Anecdote" "The Nobel Prize" (1926) "The Carousel" "'Underappreciated Poets Among Us?'—Answer to a Survey" "Discussion" "Girlfriends" "The Young Woman in the Country House" "The Bob" "The Red Leather Pouch" (1927) "Detective Novel" (1927) "Poet Story" "The Belletristic Book" "Garden Arbor Essay" "Ghosts" (1928–1929) "Female Portrait" "A Man of the World" "Something About Writing" "Tolstoy and Hutten" "The Woman Novelist" "The Equestrienne" "She Bettered Herself" "A Woman’s Book" (1931) "The Coffeehouse" (1931) "Literary Switzerland" "Embonpoint" "The Bourgeois" "The Pipsqueak" "Portrait of a Lady" "The Precious One" (1932–1933) "Something About Eating" (1932–1933) "Mother Nature" (1933)

Little Snow Landscape

"To My Home" (1905) "Two Little Fairy Tales" "Lenz’s Soldiers" "The Writer (I)" "Wenzel" "Farewell" (1909) "Illusion" "Büchner’s Flight" "Cinema" "Birch-Pfeiffer" "Lenz" "The Hermitage" "Dream Vision" "The Dressmaker" "The Landscape (I)" "Walking" "The Shepherd" "The Invitation" (1914) "Sunday Morning" "The Moon"