Until the publication of Puritans among the Indians, there was no edition of captivity narratives that so successfully brought together the twin themes of literature and ethnohistory… It is a joy to read a book so well made, intelligently edited, and carefully annotated…a model collection.

• Editors' Preface Cups of Common Calamity: Puritan Captivity Narratives as Literature and History 1. Mary Rowlandson, "The Sovereignty and Goodness of God" 2. "Quentin Stockwell's Relation of His Captivity and Redemption," Reported by Increase Mather 3. John Gyles, "Memoirs of Odd Adventures, Strange Deliverances, etc." 4. Cotton Mather, "New Assaults from the Indians" and "The Condition of the Captives" 5. "A Narrative of Hannah Swarton Containing Wonderful Passages Relating to Her Captivity and Deliverance,"