Parallel captures?

Description: This short monograph examines several dozen remarkably similar words and phrases in two famous works of literature: Joseph Conrad's novel Lord Jim (1900) and T. E. Lawrence's war memoir Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926). Most of the passages in question are found in episodes involving the capture, mistreatment, and escape of their respective heroes. The various possible connections or implications of these "parallel captures" are then explored.