Without the Option

"Without the Option"
Short story by P. G. Wodehouse
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Comedy
Publication
PublisherSaturday Evening Post (US)
The Strand Magazine (UK)
Media typePrint (Magazine)
Publication dateJune 1925 (US)
July 1925 (UK)
Chronology
SeriesJeeves
 
The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy
 
Fixing it for Freddie

"Without the Option" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was published in the Saturday Evening Post in the United States in June 1925, and in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom in July 1925. The story was also included in the 1925 collection Carry On, Jeeves.[1]

In the story, Bertie must take the place of his friend Oliver "Sippy" Sipperley at the country house of the unfriendly Pringle family after he inadvertently gets Sippy arrested.

  1. ^ Cawthorne (2013), p. 69.