But Korda's search for a rural paradise is easy, often hilarious reading.

Lucretia Lanza remembers leaving her sweltering apartment in Manhattan's Chelsea section in the late 1950's for two glorious weeks of upstate rural paradise.

But many of the amenities of rural paradise are still missing.

After the medieval hustle and bustle of Baudelaire, Charybdis seemed a rural paradise.

But most important for Clendinnen's inner life, Australia is a British colony; her childhood takes place in a rural paradise not foreign to our sensibility.

The Wolfe had overseen the murder of millions of defenseless people, and the utter destruction of what had been a beautiful rural paradise.

The blond boy left the city, heading for the rural paradise they had hoped to share.

A rural paradise, the village remains undiscovered by many from outside the region.

The novel begins in California, in a rural paradise (1), among family members whose relations are more acts of will than accidents of birth (2).

Machiavelli characterizes Peretola as a small rural paradise, an escape from the morass of Florence, a pleasant haven even for the devil.