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Hatter's Castle
Hatter's Castle
(
1935
) is a
novel
by the
Scottish
writer
A.J. Cronin
. It is set in the fictional Scottish
town
of Levenford on the
Clyde
estuary and tells the story of a
hatter
called James Brodie whose pride and arrogance gradually destroy his family and life. It was made into a successful movie in
1941
(see
Hatter's Castle (movie)[?]
).
Hatter's Castle
retains considerable power but is also melodramatic and often contrived and Cronin was accused in the 1930s of
plagiarizing
George Douglas Brown[?]
's novel
The House with Green Shutters[?]
(
1903
).
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