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The Vanilla Fudge Room
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Quentin Blake (b. 1932)
The Vanilla Fudge Room
Illustrating ‘The Vanilla Fudge Room’, a previously unseen chapter from one of Roald Dahl’s early drafts for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, published in 2014 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the book. The Vanilla Fudge Room appears in an unpublished draft of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; notably here, the fudge is mined by men rather than Oompa-Loompas, for Dahl had not yet created the tiny people from Loompaland, Charlie Bucket is accompanied by his parents instead of Grandpa Joe, and there are more than just the five Golden Ticket winners we are familiar with. Roald Dahl himself gave a clue as to why this chapter was eventually removed: ‘The trouble, though … was that I liked writing about beastly children so much that I couldn’t stop … I knew I had to throw out all except four of them. But I didn’t like doing it’.
Alternative Version for the ‘Vanilla Fudge Room’ chapter published in 2014.
Pen, ink, watercolour paper, signed.
385 x 280mm
The Vanilla Fudge Room
Illustrating ‘The Vanilla Fudge Room’, a previously unseen chapter from one of Roald Dahl’s early drafts for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, published in 2014 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the book. The Vanilla Fudge Room appears in an unpublished draft of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; notably here, the fudge is mined by men rather than Oompa-Loompas, for Dahl had not yet created the tiny people from Loompaland, Charlie Bucket is accompanied by his parents instead of Grandpa Joe, and there are more than just the five Golden Ticket winners we are familiar with. Roald Dahl himself gave a clue as to why this chapter was eventually removed: ‘The trouble, though … was that I liked writing about beastly children so much that I couldn’t stop … I knew I had to throw out all except four of them. But I didn’t like doing it’.
Alternative Version for the ‘Vanilla Fudge Room’ chapter published in 2014.
Pen, ink, watercolour paper, signed.
385 x 280mm
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