Robert Coverdale's Struggle
Subtitle: On The Wave of Success
Publisher: Reprint Services Corp
Published: September 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780781217149
Subjects: Literature; Literary; Biography & Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography
First sentence: "Robert, have you seen anything of your uncle?"
"No, aunt."
"I suppose he's over at the tavern as usual," said the woman despondently. "He drinks up about all he earns, and there's little enough left for us. I hope you won't follow in his steps, Robert."
Description: The adventures of Robert Coverdale, an orphan living with his aunt and her drunkard husband, contending with the despicable tavernkeeper and aided by his friends, a well-to-do boy summering by the sea with his parents, and a mysterious hermit who sends Robert on a secret rescue mission which changes two lives for the better.
Notes: The first known edition of this work was published in 1912 by A. L. Burt Company, fourteen years after Alger's death.  It was apparently common in those days to not only reprint the works of famous authors, but to assign those authors' names to works by other, lesser-known writers.  There is a distinct possibility that this book was not actually written by Horatio Alger, Jr.

The description, first sentences, and table of contents are taken from the Burt edition, which is in the public domain.
Table of contents: label: I.
title: A FISHERMAN'S CABIN.; label: II.
title: ROBERT AND MRS. JONES.; label: III.
title: THE WIND BROUGHT GOOD LUCK.; label: IV.
title: ROBERT'S PURCHASES.; label: V.
title: "GIVE ME THAT MONEY"; label: VI.
title: MAN AGAINST BOY.; label: VII.
title: THE NEXT MORNING.; label: VIII.
title: ROBERT BECOMES A PRISONER.; label: IX.
title: ALONE ON AN ISLAND.; label: X.
title: ROBERT COMPLETES THE RAFT.; label: XI.
title: A FRIEND GOES TO THE RESCUE.; label: XII.
title: A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.; label: XIII.
title: THE CRUISE OF THE RAFT.; label: XIV.
title: THE HERMIT OF THE CLIFF.; label: XV.
title: THE HOME OF THE HERMIT.; label: XVI.
title: THE FISHERMAN'S TEMPTATION.; label: XVII.
title: JOHN TRAFTON'S NEW PLAN.; label: XVIII.
title: A DESPERATE CONFLICT.; label: XIX.
title: A TRAGEDY ON THE BEACH.; label: XX.
title: MR. JONES MAKES A CALL.; label: XXI.
title: THE HERMIT'S SECRET.; label: XXII.
title: TWO PERSONS ARE SURPRISED.; label: XXIII.
title: AN UNPLEASANT SURPRISE.; label: XXIV.
title: ON LONG ISLAND SOUND.; label: XXV.
title: A BAGGAGE SMASHER'S REVENGE.; label: XXVI.
title: TWO IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES.; label: XXVII.
title: THE BOUND BOY.; label: XXVIII.
title: THE VICTIM OF TYRANNY.; label: XXIX.
title: THE BATTLE IN THE ATTIC.; label: XXX.
title: ATTACKED IN THE REAR.; label: XXXI.
title: BILL BENTON FINDS A FRIEND.; label: XXXII.
title: ONCE MORE IN COOK'S HARBOR.; label: XXXIII.
title: THE LANDLORD'S DEFEAT.; label: XXXIV.
title: HOW IT ENDED.