| The Hidden Force | |
| Author: | Louis Couperus |
| Title Orig: | De Stille Kracht |
| Translator: | Alexander Teixeira de Mattos |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Language: | Dutch |
| Publisher: | L.J. Veen |
| Pub Date: | 1900 |
| English Pub Date: | 1922 |
| Pages: | 246 |
The Hidden Force (Dutch; Flemish: '''De Stille Kracht''') is a 1900 novel by the Dutch writer Louis Couperus. The narrative is set on the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies. The book was adapted into a 1974 Dutch TV serial. In 2010, a feature-film adaptation was announced as under development with Paul Verhoeven as director.[1]
In 1985 E.M. Beekman published a revised edition of Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' translation dd 1921; a new translation by Paul Vincent came in 2012.