Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography

Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance is a short
volume, published by Sheldon in 1871, is Mark Twain's third book. It consists of
two stories - First Romance, which had originally appeared in The Express
in 1870, and A Burlesque Autobiography (bearing no relationship to
Twain's actual life), which first appeared in Twain's Memoranda
contributions to the Galaxy. Rather, the content consists of a few short stories
of fictional characters who are supposedly part of Twain's lineage. In the final
passage, Twain develops the story to a point of crisis, and then abruptly ends
the tale, saying:

"The truth is, I have got my hero (or heroine) into such a particularly close
place, that I do not see how I am ever going to get him (or her) out of it
again—and therefore I will wash my hands of the whole business, and leave that
person to get out the best way that offers—or else stay there. I thought it was
going to be easy enough to straighten out that little difficulty, but it looks
different now."

- Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.