After being abandoned by his alcoholic uncle on a deserted island, Robert Coverdale is rescued by the town hermit.

This work presents a "rags to riches" story by Horatio Alger, Jr., who popularized this idea through his fictional writings that also served as a theme for how America considered itself as a country.

The Parker Society was the London-based Anglican society that printed in fifty-four volumes the works of the leading English Reformers of the sixteenth century.

Nothing had been heard of him for five years. Robert Coverdale's Struggle by Horatio Alger tells the story of Robert Coverdale who lived with his uncle and aunt during his childhood.