The Inevitable, The Law Inevitable or Inevitable, is a novel by Dutch author Louis Couperus, published in 1900. It was first translated into English by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos and published in New York in 1920 by Dodd Mead and Company, and in London ('The Law Inevitable', 1921) by Thornton Butterworth. Both editions were reprinted once, in the year 1921. In 2005 a new edition was published by Pushkin Press, New York, titled 'Inevitable', without the definite article.