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The Twenty One Balloons

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The Twenty One Balloons	comment	The Twenty-One Balloons (sometimes stylized as The 21 Balloons) is a 1947 children's comedy-adventure novel by William Pene Du Bois.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Set in 1883, it concerns a schoolteacher/adventurer, William Waterman Sherman, who decides to get away from it all by building a hot-air balloon capable of supporting a small house and setting off on a leisurely round-the-world vacation. Less than a week into his journey, the balloon is forced to crash-land on the island of Krakatoa, where Sherman discovers that a group of eccentric billionaires have created their own tiny society based around gourmet cuisine and the shared wealth of a vast diamond mine hidden at the base of the volcano. Sherman becomes a permanent guest of the island, sharing both their secret and a portion of the diamond mines. Unfortunately, he has arrived barely a week before Krakatoa famously blows its top.If the plot sounds familiar, it's because F. Scott Fitzgerald published "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," which is essentially a much Darker and Edgier version of the same story, in 1922. Du Bois was informed of the similarity shortly before publication and swore up and down that it was sheer coincidence (even though he found it amusing that both he and Fitzgerald had the same dream of using their infinite wealth to be slid directly from bed into a hot bath). So far as anyone can tell, the resemblance really is just coincidence, and the lighthearted tone of The Twenty-One Balloons, as well as its target audience, is far removed from Fitzgerald's black-comedy adult parable about greed.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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The Twenty One Balloons / int_2f5b9954	comment	Alphabetical Theme Naming: All the Krakatoans have given up their real names and are known only by initials: father Mr. A, mother Mrs. A, children A-1 and A-2, all the way down to T.
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The Twenty One Balloons / int_3a5b6da	comment	All Balloons Have Helium: Subverted. The mechanics and practicality of the various balloon inventions in the book are very accurately and carefully described. Some of them might even work in the real world!
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The Twenty One Balloons / int_66f59ad	comment	Balloonacy: Happens to a small child during Sherman's homecoming celebration.
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The Twenty One Balloons / int_a8de2a46	comment	Eccentric Millionaire: The inhabitants of Krakatoa have chosen to exist apart from the rest of society, under a "restaurant government" complete with its own twenty-day calendar, with no responsibilities other than creating exotic and incredible luxuries for their own consumption.
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The Twenty One Balloons / int_e9d6eff8	comment	Cool Airship: Sherman's balloon-house is described in exquisite detail: perfectly engineered to be operated by one person for an indefinite amount of time, stocked with lightweight furniture and trimmed with balsa wood. Even his mattress is made of balloon silk and filled with helium, so that it floats up to the ceiling for daytime storage. Equally cool but not quite as much fun is the Krakatoan escape platform.
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