The phrase "a vast tale" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a story or narrative that is extensive or grand in scope.
Example: "The novel unfolds a vast tale of adventure and discovery that spans generations."
Alternatives: "an epic story" or "a grand narrative."
As in 1918, the temptation existed to turn this triumph into a vast morality tale.
From that instant of violence — resembling the 1994 murder of physician John Britton and his guard in Pensacola, Fla .— Oates draws her own vast tale about righteousness both religious and secular.
There, visitors gaze down from a second-floor window at a vast fairy-tale city, a nuclear Oz rising from the Pacific headlands, with towers that resemble minarets and 20 or so turquoise-striped, steel-sided structures that look like children's building blocks.
In the age of Snowden, revelations about government spying are not just hot stories, but suddenly part of a vast new narrative canvas and moral tale.
The story of how the faith came to be is a vast and complex tale of classical philosophy and Jewish tradition, of fantastical visions and cold calculations, of loving sacrifices and imperial ambitions.
With such a vast menagerie of tales, many much-loved species can boast scores, if not hundreds of classic "characters".
The strapline for John Huston's The Dead (1987), a "comedy-drama of James Joyce's great story", reads: "A vast, merry, and uncommon tale of love".
Coyote's exploits as a creator, lover, magician, glutton, and trickster are celebrated in a vast number of oral tales (see trickster tale).
In 1940 a book was published in Buenos Aires that drew together a vast array of fantastic tales, from Petronius and Pu Songling to Edgar Allan Poe and Kafka.
Centuries before the publication of Perrault's tale, Somadeva, a Kashmir Brahmin, assembled a vast collection of Indian folk tales called Kathā Sarit Sāgara (lit.
