Around the World in Eighty Days, an adventure novel first published in 1873, was written by the French writer Jules Verne. Phileas Fogg is a rich Englishman living in London, whose life moves strictly by the clock. He employs a new servant, Passepartout, after his previous servant makes the silly mistake of serving shaving water two degrees cold. Later that day, Phileas goes to the Reform Club as usual, where he gets into an argument with his whist partners who debate whether one can travel all around the world in eighty days. He bets a fortune to prove that he can accomplish the feat, being unaware that a look-alike has recently robbed a bank.