Roald Dahl’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year and the new release contains a couple of previously unreleased chapters, which were edited out of an early draft of the original book. Vanity Fair has published one of these chapters entitled, “The Warming-Candy Room.”
Here is more from Vanity Fair:
In “The Warming Candy Room,” three boys neglect to heed Mr. Wonka’s warnings and eat too many of his soft-centered “warming candies,” and end up “bursting with heat.” The boys do not appear elsewhere in the book, betraying a key characteristic of Dahl’s writing process. “One of the things that was quite interesting about Dahl was that he didn’t really look backward over his work,” Sturrock explains. “It’s not as if this was just the one missing chapter; there are many bits and pieces of the book that fell along the wayside. Once he decided that something wasn’t working, he just moved on.”
This isn’t the first new chapter to make the rounds. Last month, The Guardian published another early chapter that was cut called, “The Vanilla Fudge Room.” The new book has also brought out about a controversial new book cover and a golden ticket sweepstakes.