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).