If I’d a knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn’t a tackled it and aint’t agoing to no more

Tom’s most well, now, and got his bullet around his neck on a watch-guard for a watch, and is always seeing what time it is, and so there ain’t nothing more to write about, and I am rotten glad of it, because if I’d a knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn’t a tackled it and aint’t agoing to no more. But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can’t stand it. I been there before.

The above quote by the title character is the last paragraph of a book published in the US on 18 February 1885 (it had been published in the UK two months previously). 

1. Who is the author of this work?
   • Charles Dickens
   • Rudyard Kipling
   • Mark Twain
2. What is the title of the novel? (There is no multiple-choice this time)

The answers will be posted later today.