Fifty years after Roald Dahl's classic children's book was initially published, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", a chapter which was once deemed too subversive is now being released.

The chapter, which features new characters, was discovered in 1990 following the author's death.

The said subversive chapter is chapter five, entitled "Charlie Bucket" has been released in The Guardian with drawings done by Sir Quentin Blake who is best known for doing illustrations for Dahl's novels. 

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Chapter five is from a 1961 draft which describes the "Vanilla Fudge Room" that has a "colossal jagged mountain" of fudge.

New characters Tommy Troutbeck and Wilbur Rice ignore Willy Wonka's warnings about riding railway wagons that carry fudge to "The Pounding and Cutting Room". Because of their reckless disregard of authority, the two boys meet a sticky end.

Blake shared,"I know that he rewrote and rewrote many times. For this last chapter about the vanilla fudge mountain, he is leading a group of people who are not in the final book. It is interesting to see something at an earlier stage, you know, what happened in the cooking as it were. That's rather fascinating."

The recently discovered work also reveals that Charlie Bucket goes to the factory with his mother instead of his grandfather and, that there were supposed to be eight children instead of four. Augustus Gloop was also intended to have the name Augustus Pottle.

Dahl drafted five versions of the story. Four of the five survived.

"With each draft, it evolves into something more purely joyful, more extreme [and] more fully realised," Lucy Mangan, author of Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory, shared.

Mangan stated that the drafts showed the author's learning process and, his discipline in wanting to make each draft better than the last.

"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" has sold around 50 million copies in the UK and is now available in 59 languages. Since its release, it has never been out in circulation.