Brody's Castle is the first and perhaps most famous novel by the remarkable prose writer Archibald Joseph Cronin. "My house is my fortress" - this English proverb is well known. And few people manage to learn the secrets of the English house, to see the "tears invisible to the world." James Brody's house became not a fortress, but turned into a real prison for his family members. Mary's eldest daughter breaks out of her, Matt's son leaves, but those who come to terms with Brody's tyranny and despotism - his wife Margaret and baby Nessie - are doomed...