The phrase "a string of tales" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a series of related stories or narratives, often implying a sense of continuity or connection between them.
Example: "The author captivated readers with a string of tales that explored the complexities of human relationships."
Alternatives: "a series of stories" or "a collection of narratives."
But that did not distract him from animatedly relating a string of tales dating back to the 1930s.
The tentatively titled "Barefoot Stories," to be published by Hyperion, is a string of tales about Ms. Spacek's childhood in the South and her rise to fame as the star of films including "Coal Miner's Daughter" and "Carrie".
One of Mitchell's great achievements is the juxtaposition of a string of tales in which people hover between life and death, in a kind of animated limbo, constructed with a love of detail rather than a desire to create vague horror.
Still, "The Known World" is an achievement of epic scope and architectural construction, which nonetheless reads like a string of folk tales told by someone slyly watching for your reaction -- tales told by a conjurer who distracts you so well that you never know what hit you.
No description of fourth-round events here would be even remotely complete without a string of US Open tales of woe.
She went on to tell me a string of rambling tales including one about her evil landlord, who was trying to cheat her out of money.
The success of Kevin Reynolds's creation (which grossed more than $390m worldwide) set up a string of historically dodgy tales featuring swashbuckling heroics and corrupt powerbrokers, which were all decorated with some truly awful attempts at European accents.
September 3 2009 September 19 200909 Stripped of the grandeur of Homer's language, and set for the stage in plain English, the Odyssey turns out to be a string of misogynistic fairy tales, at least in the hands of the British poet and playwright Simon Armitage.
It looks like a setting out of one of Grimms' fairy tales: a string of 18th-century houses set on an isthmus between two lakes ringed by beech and oak forest.
Since then there has been a string of books, most of them morality tales for children.
In The Times of London, Marina Warner, who has written frequently about fairy tales, evoked a string of other writers who have also "re-enchanted the landscape".
