Previously unpublished "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" chapter

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 8/30/14 at 4:24pm

A lost chapter of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, deemed too wild, subversive and insufficiently moral for the tender minds of British children almost 50 years ago, has been published for the first time.

In the chapter Charlie Bucket – accompanied by his mother, not his sprightly grandfather – and the other children are led into the Vanilla Fudge Room, where they face the sinister prospect of the Pounding and Cutting Room.

(The Guardian)






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Updated On: 8/30/14 at 04:24 PM

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 8/30/14 at 10:33pm

"Lost chapter" seems a bit misleading to me, since it is clearly from a very early, very different draft of the novel. It's not as if it was something cut from the final manuscript right before it was published and could be reinserted into future editions as some sort of bonus feature.

Though it's very interesting to see such an early form of the story and see what it finally evolved to.